Solfège à la luxembourgeoise. Strength, Weakness and Challenges for Music Education

At the beginning of the 20th century, music schools in Luxembourg founded with the focal objective to form young musicians for amateur orchestras and choirs. Given that this was quiet a challenging goal, reality proved that it was difficult to assume. In 1998, after many years of discussion, the parliament of Luxembourg finally voted a law of music education. The aim was to offer an equal level of music education in every region of the country and to motivate more children to attend music courses. Politics facilitated unconsciously, but surely not unwillingly a renaissance of amateur music. Bu... Mehr ...