An der Schnittstelle zwischen Ost und West Evangelische Kirchenmusik in Siebenbürgen

• Authors: Ursula Philippi

Title variants

EN

At the Point of Intersection between East and West: Lutheran Church Music in Transylvania

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Due to historical developments, Evangelical church music in Transylvania has changed significantly in recent decades. Major events that had an impact on this development are the establishment of the communist regime in Romania and the mass exodus of German-speaking Evangelical congregation members from most Transylvanian towns and villages. This poses a challenge for the Evangelical Church, who has to conserve and maintain largely unused and empty churches, as well as their assets, such as organs, sheet music, and other musical paraphernalia. However, the changed situation also has its benefits, since it requires an opening of the small Evangelical Church toward others. Music is particularly useful medium for this opening towards the non-Evangelical world, as it is not language-bound.

Keywords

EN

Past; Present and Future of Evangelical church-music in Transylvania; Evangelical Church; organs; historical development; chances; adaptation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 441-446

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-01-06

Contributors

author

Ursula Philippi

• Prof. dr. Ursula Philippi, Professorin für künstlerisches Orgelspiel an der Staatlichen Musikhochschule Gheorghe Dima, Cluj (Klausenburg), Rumänien. Adresse: str. Morii 984 Ro 507165 Prejmer, judetul Brasov, Rumänien

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ress-2015-0032