Church musician (Germany)

Church musician (Germany)

Church musician is a music profession in Germany.

At present there are about 3600 main job and 25000 second job church musicians in the Protestant and Catholic Church in Germany.

There are four different degrees of examination: A, B, C and D. A and B requires a study at a music college or a university (Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts) . Church musicians with C and D are trained mostly by main job church musicians. The study of A takes about 12 semester and B 8 semester.

Subjects of education are organ, improvising, piano, singing, conducting, ear training, composition, score reading and figured bass, liturgics, hymnology, music history, organology.

Music colleges for church music (Hochschulen für Kirchenmusik)

  • Bayreuth – Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Bayreuth
  • Dresden – Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Dresden
  • Görlitz – Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg - schlesische Oberlausitz
  • Halle (Saale) – Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle
  • Heidelberg – Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Heidelberg
  • Herford – Hochschule für Kirchenmusik der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen
  • Regensburg – Hochschule für Katholische Kirchenmusik und Musikpädagogik Regensburg
  • Rottenburg am Neckar – Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Rottenburg
  • Tübingen – Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Tübingen

References

  • Beruf und Aufgaben der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikerinnen und Kirchenmusiker, edited by the Verband Evangelischer Kirchenmusikerinnen und Kirchenmusiker in Deutschland 1996, new edition 2011

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