Diocesan Conservatory for Church Music of the Archdiocese of Vienna
The Diocesan Conservatory for Church Music of the Archdiocese of Vienna is a training center for cantors , organists , choir directors and directors of ensembles for New Sacred Song based in the Palais Equitable ( 1st district of Vienna ).
history
In the Habsburg Monarchy , musical training took place until the early 20th century by private teachers or in educational establishments of private associations without state funding. The approval of the authority for the opening of the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1817 was given with the stipulation that special consideration should be given to church music, but no church music training took place.
When, in 1830, the Society of Friends of the Arts for Church Music in Bohemia opened an organ school in Prague , which was combined in 1889 with the Prague Conservatory founded in 1811, regular church music training began in the monarchy. Between 1840 and 1881, several schools for church music were established in Vienna, which were merged in 1906 in the General Church Music Association, which received a small subsidy from the Ministry of Education. The need for trained church musicians could not be covered with these training opportunities. As early as 1875, Franz Liszt wanted to put the training on a broader basis and set up a department for church music in the newly founded Academy of Music in Budapest , which, however, only came about in 1926.
In the motu proprio " Inter pastoralis officiis ", Pope Pius X demanded the establishment of church music schools in 1903. The III. Congress of the International Music Society in Vienna with a resolution in 1909, whereupon a church music department of today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (then Conservatory) was established in the premises of Klosterneuburg Abbey , which moved to Vienna in 1924 has been. Divisions for church music were created in 1945 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and in 1963 at the Graz Music Academy .
In parallel to academic training, church music schools were set up in almost all Austrian dioceses. In 1980 the church music school of the Archdiocese of Vienna was converted into a conservatory by the Archbishop's Office for Church Music on the initiative of Auxiliary Bishop Helmut Krätzl , which received public rights in 1982 .
education
The training focuses are
- Church music (central compulsory subject organ)
- New sacred song (central compulsory subject: guitar or piano)
- Lied - Mass - Oratorio (central compulsory subject of voice training)
The training takes place in three stages
- Elementary level
- Elementary level
- Advanced level
The aim of the training is to obtain the C or B diploma (basic or intermediate training), which entitles the holder to paid employment as a church musician. Both years last two years. In order to obtain the A diploma, a degree from a music college is required.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Church music schools in the Oesterreichischen Musiklexikon ONLINE of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, accessed on August 15, 2014
- ↑ History of the Diocesan Conservatory ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 15, 2014
Web links
- Diocesan Conservatory on the website kirchenmusik-wien accessed on August 15, 2014