150 years of "Music & Liturgy"
In 2025/2026, the Swiss Catholic Church Music Association SKMV will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its official communication medium.
For a century and a half, the magazine Music & Liturgy as the most important organ of Catholic church music in German-speaking Switzerland, reports on church music and its developments. It sheds light on everyday musical practice in liturgy and sacred concerts from various perspectives.
What began in 1876 as a paper called Choir guard began years later under the title Catholic church music and later Singing and making music in church services finally to Music & Liturgya magazine that covers a broad spectrum of church music life and creativity beyond the choral world. Since the beginning of this year, it is no longer in print, but as an online platform.
On March 14, 2026, a festive ceremony will take place at 1.30 pm in the Einsiedeln monastery church with three choirs and instrumental music. At the same time, three important figures in church music in Switzerland, Father Theo Flury, Abbot Urban Federer and Martin Hobi, will be honored for their outstanding commitment to church music with an Orlando di Lasso and Ambrosius Medal respectively. The general public is also cordially invited to this ceremony.
