Robert Pearsall - Lay a Garland {Rutter}
Robert Lucas Pearsall (March 14, 1795 - August 5, 1856) was an English composer. Lay a Garland The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter Pearsall is principally remembered for his part-songs (amongst which is his arrangement of In Dulci Jubilo) and for his twenty-two compositions in madrigal style, notably, Lay a Garland, Great God of Love, and I saw lovely Phyllis. He was also a composer of church music for both Roman Catholic and Anglican use. His contribution to the re-establishment of plainsong, renaissance polyphony, and ancient church hymns in German-speaking countries marks him also as an unsung hero of the nineteenth century Cecilian Movement. Pearsall was a Romantic in the truest sense of the word, that is to say that he embodied everything that nineteenth century Romanticism was considered to be: his antiquarian interests, his rejection of the modern industrialising world around him and the pursuit of an older aesthetic in his composition allow him to sit comfortably beside other Romantics of his time such as the author Sir Walter Scott and the architect Augustus Welby Pugin. He was fascinated by history, heraldry, and genealogy. Also, sometimes forgotten, he was an accomplished translator, publishing his English translation of Friedrich von Schiller's play William Tell in 1829, and later in the 1830s, Goethe's Faust.
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