ORGANIȘTI, DIRIJORI ȘI COMPOZITORI ÎN BANAT ȘI TRANSILVANIA SECOLELOR XIX-XX
ORGANISTS, CHOIRMASTERS AND COMPOSERS IN BANAT AND TRANSYLVANIA IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

Author(s): Denis Moldovan
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: organist; composer; conductor; pedagogue; study;
Summary/Abstract: The vocal chant and instrumental performance have always played an important role in the lives of people – their firm belief was that music has origins of divine nature and miraculous powers. Throughout time, mankind has known two disciplines of music: profane and sacred (sung in temples for bringing praise to diverse deities). Both musical disciplines developed to the present day.At first, church music was being sung with voice only, unaccompanied by musical instruments, tradition that has been preserved even today, in the eastern churches. The Roman-Catholic Church and the Protestant Church are using the organ to accompany the music sung during mass.In Banat and Transylvania of the 19th and 20th centuries, one could observe that the church music played a very important role in cultural development, keeping up with the demands of the times. Thus, the organists were not only playing common pieces with the people, but they also played different organ-only pieces during the Communio, Offertorium, or at the end of the mass; almost all organists were concert organists. The musicians of the catholic churches were able to enrich the mass with the help of a choir, that used to sing a variety of mass compositions written by famous composers like Bach or Mozart. All of this would’ve not been possible, if the organists, who were also choir directors, had not had serious education, due to their studies in Europe’s most important cultural centres: Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, etc.

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