Maxime Kovalevsky’s Legacy in the Realm of Liturgical Music

by Cyrille Sollogoub

The 1930s saw the beginning of a deeply creative ecclesial movement in France known as the Église catholique orthodoxe de France (ECOF). Born of the encounter between the new Russian immigrants to France and a group of French Catholics who sought a return to the tradition of the undivided church of the early Roman empire, this group, little known to most contemporary Orthodox, brought forth a liturgically rich movement that left a significant imprint on French liturgical music.

Cyrille Sollogoub

Cyrille Sollogoub is a professor of materials science at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers at the University of Paris and president of the Orthodox lay movement Action Chrétienne des Étudiants Russes-Mouvement de Jeunesse Orthodoxe (ACER-MJO). He has taught liturgical theology and liturgical arts at the Theological Institute of Saint John the Theologian in Brussels. He is also a parish choir director and has conducted several seminars on orthodox liturgical singing.

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