DIE REFORMATION UND IHRE AUSWIRKUNGEN AUF DIE LITURGIE DER EVANGELISCHEN KIRCHE IN BAYERN

Abstract

The Reformation and Its Impact on the Liturgy of the Protestant Church in Bavaria. At the start of the work „The Reformation and its Impact on the Liturgy of the Protestant Church in Bavaria“ it is briefly explained what great significance music had in the entire process of the Reformation, in which the three great reformers, Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, and their opinions of music will be depicted. Also described in particular will be the life and works of Martin Luther, who with his various hymnals played a fundamental role in the history of the Reformation. Luther saw music as a gift of God, and thus placed the Word of God on the same level with Music. Still today many of his alterations are found in the Bavarian liturgy, which comprises the fixed parts of the Ordinary with the Proprium, which changes with the liturgical year. After the four orders of the Bavarian Protestant liturgy were compared, suggestions have been made in addition about how the individual parts of the liturgy in the service can be musically implemented.