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To look the people in the mouth.

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That was Luther's motto in the Bible
translation.

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But the people also looked the people in
the mouth, literally speaking,

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to the reformer.

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And so, in the time of the Reformation,
many folk songs were translated into

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sports songs for the pope, but also some
flyers were censored.

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Today, many of these pieces belong to the
cultural treasures of the Zwickauer

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Ratsschulbibliothek.

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At the traditional New Year's concerts in
the Zwickauer Robert Schumann Haus,

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it is by no means always just about
Schumann.

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In this year, songs from the time of the
Reformation were the subject of the 1st of

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January.

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This one had a faster pace in Zwickau than
anywhere else.

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And so it is logical that the Zwickauer
Ratsschulbibliothek has a large number of

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printings that were directed against the
church of the pope.

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Some of these were already provided with
notes.

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For many others, the director of the
Robert Schumann Haus, Dr. Thomas

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Szynowczyk, had to find out the material
first and put it together accordingly.

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With him on stage were Dominik Schneider,
the Essen flute virtuoso, and Andreas

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Fischer, the tenor of Leipzig.

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Andreas Fischer, the tenor of Leipzig.

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The Hure of Babylon.

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The interplay of the peoples and religions
of pre-Christian Babylon, in which the

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Jewish writers in exile first brought the
Old Testament, the Torah, to paper,

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was also the symbol of exile and insolence
for the Reformatory Christians.

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The instrumentarium of that time was also
quite extensive.

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This is how Dominik Schneider played a
string instrument on the Quintera.

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Thomas Szynowczyk, the tenor of Leipzig,
used the numerous keyboard instruments

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such as organ, cimbalo, shelf,
portable and harp.

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No, there were no football fans in the
Middle Ages.

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But the theme song of the evening,
Nun treiben wir den Babst heraus,

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is the enclosure of a children's song from
the Fastnachtszeit, in which, instead of

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winter, the Roman church prince is now
driven away.

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The little boy is driven away.

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The right God is next to him.

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That is God's will, the prince and priest,
even though his heart is broken.

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It was the first one at that time.

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Today it would be called a media battle.

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Not only on the artistic level,
but especially with Derbenhohn and Spott,

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the opponents started to fight each other.

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100 years later also with weapons.

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In the end, the reformation took place in
many German countries and today these

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songs and pieces of music are part of the
cultural heritage of Germany.