Wolfram Menschick

Wolfram Menschick (28 October 1937 – 8 December 2010) was a German Catholic church musician, composer and academic teacher. From 1969 to 2002 he was responsible for the church music at Eichstätt Cathedral, also serving the Diocese of Eichstätt as music director and organ expert. He was a bell expert, a member of a national council. From 1986 to 2000, he was a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. His compositions, including 36 masses, are frequently performed. Life and career Born in Pielenhofen, and also honouring Pope Benedict XVI, who was his friend (as was also the Pope’s elder brother, the priest and musician Georg Ratzinger). Organ planning As the organ expert of the Eichstätt diocese from 1969, he planned several instruments. He preferred Baroque organs with mechanical actions, such as his largest project, the organ built for Eichstätt Cathedral in 1975 by . Private life and death Wolfram Menschick and his wife Roswitha had six daughters, including the author and the violin maker Julia Menschick. Menschick died in Eichstätt in 2010 at age 73. The requiem was celebrated by Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke. Recordings * Veni Domine – Der Eichstätter Domchor