Kantorat

English translation: precentorship / chantership

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German term or phrase:Kantorat
English translation:precentorship / chantership

13:20 Mar 22, 2016
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German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / musicology
German term or phrase: Kantorat
... um die Stellung des Director musices in Hamburg zu bewerben, die das Kantorat sowie die musikalische Leitung der Gänsemarkt-Oper umfasste.
David Kosviner
Local time: 23:18
precentorship / chantership
Explanation:
According to my ca. 1900 große Muret-Sanders
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Jonathan MacKerron


Summary of answers provided
2 +3precentorship / chantership
Jonathan MacKerron
3choirmaster
Machiel van Veen (X)


Discussion entries: 3





  

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precentorship / chantership


Explanation:
According to my ca. 1900 große Muret-Sanders

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  BrigitteHilgner: "Cantorate" seems to be mainly used in a Jewish context.
5 mins
  -> danke, davon bin ich auch ausgegangen

agree  Jan Truper: indeed, you are correct
16 mins

agree  Stephen Sadie
17 mins
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1 day 8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
choirmaster


Explanation:
Kantorat is besides "choirmaster" also the time a Kantor is in function as such.

Machiel van Veen (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 23:18
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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