Studium muzyki kościelnej w Opolu w perspektywie naukowo-artystycznej współpracy z ośrodkami zagranicznymi

Abstract

The article presents the history of collaboration between church musicians from the Opole Diocese and foreign centres. Organizing international artistic-academic exchange was very difficult before 1989. The political breakthrough and changes in Eastern and Middle Europe took place during 15th anniversary of the Diocesan Organ School which was founded in 1974. Since then there have been initiated extensive contact with foreign centres first and foremost in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. One of the most important partners was High School for Church Music and Musical Pedagogy in Regensburg. This collaboration focuses on musicological research whose main points are: cataloguing musical instruments (mainly organs) in churches of the Opole and Gliwice Dioceses, cataloguing remaining liturgical books and antique musical documents, history of religious hymns (in Polish, German, and Moravian) in Silesia and the organization of symposiums and academic conferences dedicated to religious musical culture in Silesia. The important points are numerous trainings and workshops for pedagogs and students of the Diocesan Organ School in Opole.