The Church Music School in Huşi Diocese (First half of the 20 th century) Ionuţ-Gabriel Nastasă Rev.PhD. Faculty of Orthodox Theology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, ROMANIA Abstract: The present paper highlights the contribution of a few music and theology schools from Huşi Diocese in developing church music in the first half of the 20 th century. The two church singing schools in Huşi and Bârlad and also the Theology Seminary in Huşi stand out thanks to the positive impact of church music schools in training remarkable church singers and cultivating musical inclinations in future priests in Huşi Diocese. Also the teaching activity of certain church singing teachers such as N. Andriescu, Vasile Ciureanu, Dimitrie N. Pipa, Alexandru Raicu, Ghenadie Honciuc (protopsaltes at Huşi Diocese), Damian Rânzescu, Ştefan Enăchescu (psaltes in Bârlad), C. Nedelcu, Gheorghe Horhocea, Dimitrie Dimitriu, D. Simionescu (conductor) must be emphasized. Keywords: school, church music, music teachers, Huşi Diocese Church music education in the first half of the 20 th century in Romania was highly developed, being supported in terms of finance and organization by the State and the Church. The number of church singing schools, official or private, up until the communist era, was without precedent and unmatched even today. Thus, only in Moldavia, there was a large number of church music schools, such as those in Iaşi, Piatra Neamţ, Bacău, Huşi, Roman, Bârlad, Cernăuţi, Chişinău, Botoşani, Neamţ Monastery, Văratic Monastery, Agapia Monastery and so on, to which one may add a couple of theology seminaries in Iaşi, Roman, Huşi, Dorohoi, Chişinău, Ismail, a few theology faculties in Cernăuţi (relocated for a while to Suceava), Chişinău (relocated for a while to Iaşi, Moldoveanu 2010: 358-359), which provided church music courses. Huşi Diocese set up two church singing schools of greater significance in the first half of the 20 th century: in Huşi (part of Fălciu