Festive services for Christmas: a musical experience!

Festive services for Christmas: a musical experience!

on December 25, 2024, the first Christmas holiday, believers flock to numerous churches to experience special services. A festive pontifical vespers with Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann take place in Speyer at 4:30 p.m. href = "https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/vialondere-gottesdienste-an-den-weihnacht-100.html"> SWR reports . In the basilica of St. Paulin Trier, musical evening fairs follow at 6:30 p.m., where the basilica orchestra occurs together with the female voices of the vocal ensemble.

December 26th is all about the festival high in the Trier cathedral, which begins at 10 a.m. and is accompanied by music of the cathedral choir and the cathedral windows. At the same time, a donation office under the direction of cathedral dean Henning Priesel takes place in the Mainz cathedral. Here, too, the cathedral cantore plays an important role in musical design, such as