Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Charles Münch, conductor
Recording : 15 & 16 October 1942 Paris
et 1 March 1944
Le Roi David (1921)
Chœurs de Saint Guillaume avec Grande Orgue
Orchestre Municipal de Strausbourg
Fritz Münch, conductor
Recording : January 1929
The French choir-master and professor of music, Fritz Münch, was the son of Ernest Münch, founder of the Chœur Saint-Guillaume, Strasbourg, and a critically important figure in the Bach revival in Alsace. His younger brother was the eminent conductor Charles Münch. Fritz Münch first studied music in his native town, later in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris. He 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. He also succeeded his father as director of the Chœur Saint-Guillaume in 1924, and rapidly made a name for himself, both in Strasbourg and elsewhere.