Carlferdinand Zech (14 December 1928 – 16 September 1999) was a German musicologist, composer and choir conductor.
Born in Potsdam, Zech attended Franckesche Stiftungen in Halle an der Saale.
From 1950 to 1955, he studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Theater und Musik Halle [de], studying under Werner Gößling (conducting), Fritz Reuter (music theory and composition) and Walther Siegmund-Schultze (music history).
From 1951 to 1976, he served as choir director of the Universitätschor Halle [de] "Johann Friedrich Reichardt".
[2] In 1982 he completed a second disseration: Die kompositorischen Gestaltungsmittel unseres Jahrhunderts als Gegenstand der Musiktheorie.