Hans Musch and Bertold Hummel have known each other since the 1950s. When Hummel moved to Würzburg in 1963, Musch took over his position as cantor in the parish of St Konrad in Freiburg. On 20 December 1970, Hans Musch plays the world premiere of the Three Marian Frescoes for organ solo op. 42 in Freiburg Minster.

Biography

Hans Musch was born on 20 January 1935 in Stankt Leonard in the Allgäu. His studies in school music, Catholic church music, conducting, musicology, classical philology and Romance studies took Hans Musch to Freiburg, Rome and Munich. In 1967, he completed his doctorate under Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht with a thesis on Costanzo Festa as a madrigal composer.

From 1966, he taught organ at the Freiburg State University of Music, from 1970 as a full-time university lecturer and from 1980 until 2000 as a professor.

As a member of the Conference of Directors of Catholic Training Centres, which he chaired from 1981 to 1985, he published the two-volume textbook Musik im Gottesdienst in 1975.

Musch chaired the international organ conference of the Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde Orgelkunst am Oberrhein, which took place in 1989. He was also active as an archbishop's organ inspector. As an organist, Musch gave concerts in numerous European countries and in the USA. He died on 8 March 2023 at the age of 88 in Freiburg i. Brsg.