Priest Gregor Zafošnik created most of his compositions in the period of many changes within musical-liturgical area during Vatican Council II. In his compositions, Gregor Zafošnik was always fond of simple musical expression and smaller musical ensembles, which ideally suited orientation of Council in a musical point of view. His course of work is transparent through his musical and pedagogical work, in which he intensively focused on church musicians and on the simplicity of his compositions of ordinarium of mass, resposorium graduale and congregational songs. With his compositions and with his editions of hymnals he left a mark on church choirs of today's archdiocese Maribor, but his repertoire is also known in Slovenia and abroad. This article concentrates on Zafošnik and his fondness for congregational singing, which was legitimated as liturgical music by Vatican Council II along with the Gregorian chant, ancient and modern polyphony.
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