Christian Münch


Christian Münch is a German composer, organist, pianist and conductor.

Life

Münch was born in Freiberg in 1951 in a cantor's family. With his father he learned trumpet and organ. Since his childhood he received piano and clarinet lessons at the music school in Freiberg.
From 1971 to 1976 he studied musical composition with Manfred Weiss and Wilfried Krätzschmar, conducting with Rudolf Neuhaus and piano with Günter Händel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. From 1983 to 1985 he was with Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. During this time he was engaged in electroacoustic music.
Subsequently Münch worked as répétiteur at the Semperoper in Dresden. He conducted the Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, the "musica-viva-ensemble dresden" and the "Ensemble für Neue Musik Berlin" as well as a guest conductor at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Münch has conducted more than 100 world premieres. His compositions, including a ballet, have been performed by the Dresden Philharmonic, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresdner Kreuzchor, among others.
Münch has taught at the Dresden Academy of Music since 1976 and was honorary professor there from 2002 to 2016. He taught performance practice of Neue Musik.
In 2018 he donated his Nachlass to the music department of Saxon State and University Library Dresden.

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