A slight issue with the historiography of this. Brockes first published thus libretto in 1712, and was himself born only in 1680. It takes rather a leap of imagination to believe that he was being influenced by the death and destruction arising from the Thirty Years’ War, which concluded in 1648. Given the life spans of people at the time, it would have been a conflict three or so generations before, not really enough to influence a writer in any meaningful or direct way.
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A slight issue with the historiography of this. Brockes first published thus libretto in 1712, and was himself born only in 1680. It takes rather a leap of imagination to believe that he was being influenced by the death and destruction arising from the Thirty Years’ War, which concluded in 1648. Given the life spans of people at the time, it would have been a conflict three or so generations before, not really enough to influence a writer in any meaningful or direct way.