Church music in Germany

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Church musician (Kirchenmusiker) is a music profession in Germany.

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At present there are about 3,600 main job and 25,000 second job church musicians in the Protestant and Catholic Church in Germany.

There are four different degrees of examination: A, B, C and D. A and B requires a study at a music college or a university (Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts) . Church musicians with C and D are trained mostly by main job church musicians. The study of A takes about 12 semester and B 8 semester.

Subjects of education are organ, improvising, piano, singing, conducting, ear training, composition, score reading and figured bass, liturgics, hymnology, music history, organology.

Music colleges for church music (Hochschulen für Kirchenmusik)

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