 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.Emerging from the early stages of industrialization and the Romanticism of the late-18th and early 19th centuries, the Cecilian Movement grew out of a longing for simplicity and unworldliness, but also on an historicizing desire to return compositionally to models from the past, in particular the Renaissance masters of the 15th and 16th centuries.Palestrina was taken as the chief representative of this contrapuntal music of the "stile antico", sung with little or no instrumental accompaniment, which was regarded as more suitable to church music than the more emotional style that had emerged during the 18th century .