Pueri Cantores
The International Association of Pueri Cantores (Latin: Foederatio Internationalis Pueri Cantores, FIPC) is an association of Catholic children, boys, girls and youth choirs from all over the world. It was recognized by the Vatican in 1951 . The first president and founder was Abbé Fernand Maillet , the first director was the Mainz cathedral music director Georg Paul Köllner , who headed the organization until 1963. From 1984 to 1992 the Würzburg cathedral music director Siegfried Koesler was president of the international choir association Pueri Cantores.
history
In 1903 Pope Pius X published an apostolic letter , in the form of a motu proprios , on church music . The letter is entitled “ Tra le sollecitudini ”, with this letter he propagated and ordered the renewal of church music. In the following years and derived from the inspiration of papal writing, the French music students Paul Berthier and Pierre Martin founded the Schola cantorum " Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois " in Paris in 1907 . In 1921 the Schola and the Cantoria di Belleville merged, and this choir had already achieved enormous fame by 1931
In 1944 the first “Association of Pueri Cantores” was created and in 1947 it was officially recognized as a Catholic action by the Assembly of French Bishops and Cardinals . In 1951 the Pueri Cantores Association received the approval of the statutes from the Holy See and was recognized on January 31, 1996 by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as an international association of believers under papal law.
Organization and expansion
President of the international Pueri Cantores Association (FIPC) is currently Jean Henric from Béziers (France), assisted by two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary General, a Treasurer and a Spiritual Adviser. The German choir association Pueri Cantores e. V. has its office in Cologne. Judith Kunz (cathedral choir director in the diocese of Limburg) and vice-president Matthias Balzer (speaker for church music in the diocese of Trier), who was president to date after replacing Wilm Geismann in September 2007, has been president since September 2019. The German Pueri Cantores Association is divided into 23 diocesan associations.
Since it was founded, numerous international meetings have taken place, the last in Rome in 2000 , in Lyon in 2002 , in Cologne in July 2004 , in Rome from December 27, 2005 to January 1, 2006, and in Krakow from July 11 to 15, 2007 , from July 8 to 12, 2009 in Stockholm , December 28, 2010 to January 1, 2011 in Rome. The last international meeting took place in Barcelona from July 11-15, 2018 . In addition, nationwide and regional meetings are held. The last German Choir Festival took place in Paderborn from July 3rd to 7th, 2019 with around 2,800 children and young people . The aim of these meetings is the exchange between the choirs. The choir directors' conferences are also an integral part of the association. The last of these conferences took place in 2001 on the fiftieth anniversary of the association and was accompanied by a Germany-wide day of action.
The FIPC is affiliated with 32 associations and 11 partnerships, it is represented in 24 countries worldwide, with 19 in Africa, 15 in Europe, 2 in North America, one in the Middle East and one in South America. In Germany there are currently 470 choirs with around 20,000 singers in the association.
literature
- The Spiritual Communities of the Catholic Church - Compendium (No. 54, International Association of Pueri Cantores, pp. 159–160), St. Benno-Verlag , Leipzig , 204, ISBN 3-7462-1995-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Paul Köllner in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- ^ Wilm Geismann: Inspirer of the Pueri Cantores in: Dommusik Würzburg. A celebratory donation in honor of Professor Siegfried Koesler, Cathedral Kapellmeister zu Würzburg 1971-2002 , Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-010031-8 , page 20
- ^ Staff - Foederatio Internationalis Pueri Cantores . In: Foederatio Internationalis Pueri Cantores . ( puericantores.org [accessed October 10, 2018]).
- ^ New elections for the Presidium. September 27, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Capella Cantorum Freiburg - Wilm Geismann [1]
- ↑ Dioceses. Retrieved on March 2, 2020 (German).
- ^ Foederatio Internationalis Pueri Cantores: Congress Barcelona 2018. June 21, 2018, accessed on August 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Festival 2018 Ulm. Retrieved on March 2, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Our source is you - review of the Chorfestival 2019. July 24, 2019, accessed on August 18, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Mission statement and history - German Choir Association PUERI CANTORES eV In: German Choir Association PUERI CANTORES eV ( pueri-cantores.de [accessed on October 10, 2018]).