Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination

James Garratt explores the revival of sixteenth-century music in nineteenth-century Germany focusing on the reception of Palestrina by critics historians performers and composers. He demonstrates that the Palestrina revival was just as significant for nineteenth-century culture as parallel movements in the other arts. This study is of relevance to scholars students and devotees of nineteenth-century music as well as those with interests in nineteenth-century culture art architecture literature and aesthetics the history of church music and the early music revival.