Fritz Münch (born in Strasbourg, then in the German Empire, 2 June 1890, died in Niederbronn-les-Bains 10 March 1970)[1] was a French music administrator and conductor, as well as being a pastor.
[3] Münch then joined the faculty of the Strasbourg Conservatory as a professor of music history, and eventually succeeded his father as the school's director in 1929, in which post he continued until he retired in 1960.
[3] During this period he programmed works such as Haydn's The Seasons, the Mozart Requiem (with which he inaugurated Radio Strasbourg on 11 November 1930), and among contemporary composers, he conducted Debussy, Schmitt, Stravinsky and especially Honegger.
He conducted the premieres in Strasbourg of the Ode of Nicolas Nabokov in 1931, the Abendkantate of Léon Justin Kauffmann in 1942 and the Stabat Mater of Poulenc in 1951.
[4] He ended his career with the choir in 1962 with the St Matthew Passion in Strasbourg and Les Cris du Monde and the Symphonie Liturgique by Honegger at the Festival of Zurich.