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Sep 26, 1891 - City (France) — November 6, 1968

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Charles Munch (conductor)

French Conductor

Charles Munch (French pronunciation:[ʃaʁlmynʃ]; born Karl Münch; 26 September 1891 – 6 November 1968)^[1] was an AlsatianFrench symphonic conductor and violinist. Noted for his mastery of the French orchestral repertoire, he was best known as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Life and career

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Munch was born in 1891 in Strasbourg, Alsace. The son of organist and choir director Ernst Münch, he was the fifth of six children. He was the brother of conductor Fritz Münch and the cousin of conductor and composer Hans Münch. Although his first ambition was to be a locomotive engineer, he studied violin at the Strasbourg Conservatory. His father, Ernst, was a professor of organ at the conservatory and performed at the cathedral; he also directed an orchestra with his son Charles in the second violins.

After receiving his diploma in 1912, Charles studied with Carl Flesch in Berlin and Lucien Capet at the Conservatoire de Paris. He was conscripted into the German army in World War I, serving as a sergeant gunner. He was gassed at Péronne and wounded at Verdun. Munch considered that "as an Alsacian and as a musician, [he was] purely and profoundly German, but that [he was] a friend of many cou

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Charles Munch (1891-1968)

Charles Munch was born in Strasbourg ; his father, Ernest Munch, was a pastor and organ teacher in the town “Conservatoire” (school of music). He himself taught his son to play the violin initially, but later, Charles continued at a more advanced level with Cari Flesch in Berlin and Lucien Capet in the Paris Conservatoire.

During the First World War, he was called up to serve in the German army, was a victim of poison gas in Péronne and wounded in Verdun.

In 1920, he became a violin teacher in Strasbourg Conservatoire, whose head at that time was Guy Ropartz. From 1926 to 1933, he was associate conductor for the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, whose directors were Wilhelm Furtwengler and Bruno Walter.

He married Geneviève Maury, (who was the grand-daughter of the founder of the Nestlé company) and in 1933, he began his career in Paris by conducting the Orchèstre Lamoureux, the Nouvel Orchestre de Paris and the Société Philharmonique de Paris. He became friends with several composers whose works he directed : Arthur Honegger, Albert Roussel, Francis Poulenc, Florent Schmidt.

From 1937 to 1945 he conducted the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, refusing to perform the works of any Ge