Eugen Papst (24 December 1886 – 2 January 1956) was a German composer and music teacher.
He then attended the teacher training seminar in Freising and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1907.
After the end of the war, there were disputes over his position as General Music Director because the City of Cologne appointed Günter Wand in 1946 despite an ongoing contract with Papst.
[1] Pope accepted an offer to the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, where he held master classes in conducting.
For the 1950 Oberammergau Passion Play, he created an arrangement of the Passion music by Rochus Dedler (1779-1822), which was played unchanged until 1990 and is still in use today with revisions and additions by the present musical director Markus Zwink.