Swiss Ecclesiastical Chant Federation
- Swiss Ecclesiastical Chant Federation
The Swiss Ecclesiastical Chant Federation (SECF) (in German "Schweizerischer Kirchengesangsbund (SKGB)", in French "Fédération Suisse du Chant Ecclésiastique (FSCE)", in Italian "Federazione Svizzera del Canto Sacro (FSCS)", in Romansh "Federaziun Svizra dal Chant Sacral (FSCS)" is the umbrella organisation of church choirs and chantries as well as of ecclesiastical and sacred music in general in Switzerland.
The SECF has been founded in 1896 as federation of the Swiss-German choirs of the reformed churches. It nowadays has about 10000 members in about 325 choirs.
External links
* [http://www.kirchengesangsbund.ch/ Official site of the SECF (in German)]
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