Regensburg tradition

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The Regensburg tradition is a Roman Catholic liturgical and church music reform effort that began to appear in the mid-19th century.

This reform was justified by Carl Proske . This rejected contemporary music, which was mostly accompanied by instruments, and church music of the Viennese Classic and advocated the use of "real" church music, which consisted of Gregorian chant and works of the old classical vocal polyphony of the 16th century. The works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina were considered the "purest" church music. The name "Regensburg Tradition" is also based on the fact that the Regensburg Cathedral Choir , one of the few cathedral choirs with a thousand-year uninterrupted tradition, was supposed to embody the new model of church music, which was also known under the name of Cecilianism . In the following years, contemporary church music based on the Palestrina style, for example by Michael Haller, was created .

This particular church music endeavor led to the founding of the Caecilienverein by Franz Xaver Witt as part of the 19th German Catholic Day, which took place from August 31 to September 3, 1868 in Bamberg . The office for this was set up in Regensburg. The association and Witts published magazines Fliegende Blätter for Catholic church music in the following period for the further expansion of this church music idea in the German-speaking countries.

The Regensburger Domspatzen still embody this tradition today.

literature

  • Raymond Dittrich: The Motuproprio Pius X. for church music "Tra le sollecitudini dell 'officio pastorale" (1903) and the Regensburg tradition. Schnell & Steiner Regensburg, 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1660-4 .
  • August Scharnagl: The Regensburg tradition. A contribution to the history of Catholic church music in the 19th century Regensburg 1963. Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek Regensburg, 9995 / Mus.th. 1590/9.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The Regensburger Dommusik on kirchenmusik-regensburg.de, accessed on December 30, 2016
  2. ^ Wilhelm Bäumker :  Franz Xaver Witt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 573-577.