Organ St Charles Church Vienna, Austria - Orgel Karlskirche Wien Nov 06 '22 Patronal City Blessing

Описание: City blessing on Nov 06, 2022, with procession, incensing, and worship, Karlskirche Vienna, Austria, for a belated patronal feast. 👉03:17👈 City blessing (full improvisation)
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Organ improvisation with hymn "Großer Gott, wir loben Dich" GL 380, and some reminiscences of "Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet" GL 478.
Recorded with smartphone only.

00:00 Transition to city blessing, expositio
01:00 Transition to community Te Deum hymn
01:44 Te Deum hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben dich" (GL 380)
03:17 ⭐City blessing (full improvisation) ⭐
08:51 Repositio
10:40 Exit

Did you know, that during the Baroque era, people were celebrating and even dancing in the churches? 😉 The more ascetic culture as of today in most European Catholic churches came many years later (it came again, returned, in some sense, because there were ascetic periods before the Baroque era as well).
The main message of the Catholic Church in German speaking Middle Europe during the Baroque era was: Happiness, joy and greatness - all of them meant to worship God and to give the people on Earth an impression of a rich eternity in heaven. This Baroque church culture was also established in order to contrast well with the Protestants' ascetism and cold simpleness.

Baroque architecture of Catholic churches in Middle Europe uses quite a lot of rather playful ornamentics; here, the Baroque era was very senseful and sensual -- the Catholic Church was opened for the masses, and people wanted to touch, to feel, to watch.