Gemeentezang in Duitsland in de negentiende eeuw

Abstract

This article focuses on congregational singing in the German Protestant churches in the 19th century, aiming to gain insight in the congregational singing in the Netherlands, as the Dutch church musicians were strongly influenced by and often educated in Germany. Based on quotations drawn from articles from 19th-century German music journals the author describes the form, shape and sometimes rather low quality of the congregational singing and its organ accompaniment, and the attempts to improve it.