James Garratt is Professor of Music History and Aesthetics at the University of Manchester, where he also holds the position of University Organist. His publications include three single-author books: Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination: Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music (Cambridge, 2002); Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner (Cambridge, 2010); and Music and Politics: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, 2018). He is currently completing a book for CUP on Music, Aesthetics and Values.