"[This quote needs a citation] He opposed the socioscientific doctrine of historicism that discoverable laws of historical change make it possible to predict future developments.
Repudiating the claim that Schoenberg was "an inevitable historical force", Popper dismissed the idea of wishing to do work "ahead of its time" as "nothing but historicist propaganda".
In historicist modernism, "musical techniques from the remote past are used prominently and vigorously as a way of achieving a distance from late Romantic styles".
Creating new music that closely follows the style of an earlier composer or period has provided a creative outlet for both major and minor masters.
[citation needed] The Cecilian Movement, beginning formally with the founding of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Cäcilienverein in 1868 but conceptually reaching back to the Council of Trent (1545–63), had as its goal the restoration of traditional religious feeling and the authority of the Catholic Church.
[9] The fusion of historical and emergent styles, forms, techniques, and content in a given work is encountered with great frequency in the music of most periods.
A closely related instrumental genre that first appeared in the late Renaissance, the toccata achieved particular prominence in the keyboard works of Buxtehude and J.S.
Other romantic and early 20th-century composers among the many who demonstrated either explicit or implicit historicist affinities are Barber, Bartók, Britten, Bruckner, Marius Casadesus, Chávez, Ferdinand David, Falla, Fauré, François-Joseph Fétis, Grieg, d'Indy, Ives, Kreisler, Liszt, Martinů, Paderewski, Pfitzner, Manuel Ponce, Poulenc, Respighi, Satie, Schoenberg,[10][11] Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos, and Wagner.
These include Winfried Michel, author of the "Haydn Forgeries";[13][14]) and Roman Turovsky-Savchuk, whose original lute and viola da gamba compositions in the baroque style were sufficiently convincing to be mistaken for works by composers of the 17th or 18th century,[12][15] and led to accusations of "trivializing musicology".
[16] Other historicist neobaroque composers include Elam Rotem, Federico Maria Sardelli, Joseph Dillon Ford, and Grant Colburn.