Franz Philipp

Franz Joseph Philipp (24 August 1890 – 2 June 1972) was a German church musician and composer. He studied and later taught various instruments including organ, worked as a composer, directed a conservatory, and founded a school for organ, a chamber orchestra, an institute for church music, and a choir. In the 1930s, he was highly valued by the Nazi regime as a composer, gaining a reputation he tried to undo after the war. Philipp was born in and died in Freiburg im Breisgau and worked in Basel and Karlsruhe as well.