The Cecilian Movement for church music reform began in Germany in the second half of the 1800s as a reaction to the liberalization of the Enlightenment.[1]
The Cecilian Movement received great impetus from Regensburg, where Franz Xaver Haberl had a world-renowned school for church musicians.[2] Their theoretical ideas were formulated by Ludwig Tieck, Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Johann Michael Sailer, E. T. A. Hoffmann,[3] and Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut.[1]
- ^ a b Gmeinwieser 2001.
- ^ Haberl 2001.
- ^ Hoffmann 1814.