Church music in Germany

Music of Germany
General topics
German composers
Genres
Church music Classical Electronic Heavy metal Thrash metal Highlife Electronic music Hip hop Jazz Medieval metal Neue Deutsche Welle Opera Punk Rock (Neue Deutsche Härte, Krautrock, Ostrock) Schlager Volkslied Volksmusik Volkstümliche Musik
Specific forms
Guggenmusik Lied Schuhplattler Yodeling
Media and performance
Music awards ECHO Award Eurovision Song Contest MTV Europe Music Awards Music charts GfK Entertainment charts Deutsche Black Charts Music festivals Rock am Ring and Rock im Park Wacken Open Air Fusion Festival Hurricane Festival Mayday Summerbreeze Music media Radio stations in Germany De:Bug Magazine Folker Juice Melodie und Rhythmus Metal Hammer Musik und Gesellschaft Musikmarkt Neue Zeitschrift für Musik Orkus Sonic Seducer Spex Zillo
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem "Deutschlandlied"
Regional music
Local forms Berlin Related areas Austria Liechtenstein Switzerland
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Church musician (Kirchenmusiker) is a music profession in Germany.

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.