In the US Catholic Herald: When a Protestant powerhouse turned to Catholic music
The Frauenkirche stands beside the Elbe in Dresden, the capital of Saxony (Getty)
Dresden, 1650. The Thirty Years’ War, officially over for only two years, hadn’t just decimated the population of Saxony – which, technically, would suggest a reduction by 10 per cent. Between disease, famine and murder, it had wiped out a gruesomely unimaginable two thirds.
Death was more present than life – a fact that did not spare the great court ensembles of the Saxon Elector, Johann Georg I and that of his eldest (surviving) son, the future Johann Georg II... continue reading
 G.Peranda, Sacred Music From Dresden Abendmusiken Basel, J.-A. Bötticher Coviella SACD  |
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