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A concert of music written during the Thirty Years War, composed by German-speaking musicians directly affected by the international conflict that devastated large parts of central Europe between 1618 and 1648. Then as now, anti-war sentiment found an outlet in music, with beautifully poignant songs of loss, anguish and thanksgiving for peace being set to music by composers such as Heinrich Schultz, Melchior Franck, Heinrich Albert and Sigmund Theophil Staden. As we commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War I this concert reminds us that the brutality of war - and the simple human response to it - remains unchanged from that day to this.