Discours sur la musique religieuse en Belgique - Van Elewyck, Xavier 1825-1888 (Louvain Vanlinthout et cie, 1861)
Xavier Van Elewyck was a Belgian composer, conductor, music pedagogue and musicologist. In 1860 he represented the Belgian dioceses at a congress for religious music in Paris and criticized the tendency to exclude orchestras from the liturgy. In 1863–64 he was co-organizer and secretary of the religious congresses in Mechelen.
Extrait des procès-verbaux du Congrès de Musique religieuse de Paris (novembre 1860)
Keywords: 19th Century (1801-1900); Church music; Music history; Belgium