Originally debuted at our very first concert at the Twin Cities Early Music Festival in 2018, this program pays homage to the after-effects of the Thirty Years’ War on composition and culture in seventeenth-century Germany. The program illuminates the music of lesser-known wartime and postwar composers: the refugees Heinrich Grimm and Andreas Hammerschmidt, the British immigrant William Brade and his close multi-instrumentalist colleague Johann Schop, the controversial Johann Rosenmüller, and Johann Vierdanck, star musician of the Dresden court; as well as Johann Rudolph Ahle, whose style directly influenced Bach and the subsequent high Baroque. Their music creates a bright path that leads through and beyond a period of impenetrable darkness.

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