Talk:Die Deutsche Liturgie

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A fact from Die Deutsche Liturgie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when pieces from Mendelssohn's German Liturgy were sung by the Thomanerchor (pictured) in 2022, a reviewer noted "a captivating purity in the tone of devotional Reformation romanticism"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Die Deutsche Liturgie.

Protestant liturgy[edit]

@Gerda Arendt: Do you happen to know which Christian denomination Mendelssohn composed this for? I'd think it would have been the Lutheran church, but I'm not sure. We could surely be more precise here than specifying "Protestant liturgy", which is an extremely broad and heterogeneous category. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 13:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The court in Berlin was Reformed, but I believe that the composer would have liked to see it applied broadly. "Protestant" is vs. "Catholic", where it came from - Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Learning: yes, the court was reformed, but - quoting from our article: "In 1817, under the auspices of King Frederick William III of Prussia, the community of the Supreme Parish Church, like most Prussian Calvinist and Lutheran congregations joined the common umbrella organization named Evangelical Church in Prussia (under this name since 1821), with each congregation maintaining its former denomination or adopting the new united denomination." - It was for this united Protestant Church in Prussia. - I believe that "Evangelical" is a bad translation of "evangelisch", sounding like evangelism. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:08, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]