The German Gregorian

Faith and sentiment in Luther

Abstract

The article examines Luther’s action to reform the field of music. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between faith and feeling. So pervasive was Luther’s musicalrevolution that we can rightly speak of German Gregorian, the mark of modern German nation, but also of a deep laceration inside Christianity. At the end of the XVIIIth Century, this will be one of the reproaches that Novalis will move to Luther.