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The present study takes a journey into the musical life of Romanians in Răhău, a village on the outskirts of Sebeş³, studying their choral activity during the first half of the 20th century. The material is entirely based on documents from the Răhău Orthodox Parish fund at the Romanian National Archives, Alba County Service. The information that is to be presented focuses on three aspects of the musical life in the above mentioned village: the choral activity of the students of the Orthodox confessional school, that of the church choir and that of the Sfântul Gheorghe Society choir. As the documentary references are not sufficiently extensive to allow for the separate treatment of the three subjects, we will only mention them chronologically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study provides an overview of the musical life of the Romanians in Sebeş, with a deeper insight into the choral work performed by them in the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th. The existence of the four choir groups presented here is related to the names of institutions or associations under the patronage of which they functioned: the Sebeş Orthodox Parish, the Astra Division of Sebeş and the "Sfântul Gheorghe" Association. The material is compiled, to a large extent, from documents belonging to the funds of Astra, the Sebeş division and the Orthodox Parish of Sebeş preserved in the Romanian National Archives, Alba County Branch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]