The year 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of the city’s alignment with the Reformation.
The Reformation brought about profound transformations in ecclesiastical life, including significant developments in church music. Among the most notable was the introduction of vernacular languages into liturgical practice and sacred song.
In collaboration with the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences and the Silesian Museum, and the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahnschule Görlitz, the musicians of The Schoole of Night have launched a 7 day project that enables pupils with and without disabilities to engage actively in the study and performance of music—encompassing both early and contemporary music.

Students of the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahnschule Görlitz

THE SCHOOLE OF NIGHT
Maria Skiba – soprano
Peter Alexander Bauer – percussion
Frank Pschichholz – lute, electric guitar and electronics

Programme

Der Anfang: Die Wunder Jesu, Frank Pschichholz 2025

Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr from: Geistliche Lieder,dere etliche von alters her inn der Kirchen eintrechtiglich gebraucht, 1580

Der Tag, der ist so frewdenreich from: Harmoniae, Sacrae, Vario Carminum Latinorum & Germanicorum genere, Görlitz 1613

Christus der uns selig macht from: Kirchengeseng, Darinnen die Heuptartickel des Christlichen glaubens kurtz gefasset vnd außgelegt sind, 1580

Pieśń przed wieczorem from: Summa nabożeństwa, Breslau 1573

Drum symphony

Abendlied, Frank Pschichholz 2025

Friday, 7. Nov. 2025 Schlesisches Museum Görlitz, 17.00

This project is co-financed through public funds allocated in accordance with the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament, and supported by the Stiftung Zukunftswege Ost.

We extend our sincere gratitude for the generous provision of facilities by the Jahnschule Görlitz, the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, and the Silesian Museum.