The aim of Music in the Frauenkirche is to bring people together. When programmes are organised and performances are staged, the spirit of the church’s message always involves keeping up tradition and inspiring people to take new paths. For the consecration ceremony on 30 October 2005, choirmaster Matthias Grünert composed the consecration canon “Friede sei mit Euch” (Peace be with you). From then on, Music in the Frauenkirche was to become an event appealing to all the senses and proclaiming a message of reconciliation. Light as a feather, the music of the organ, the voices of the soloists and choirs and the sounds of great orchestras are transported in all their perfection up to the dome, where they are met by the four Evangelists and the allegories of the Christian virtues of Faith, Love, Hope and Charity. The concerts and the music at the services join together in unity with the building to convey the message of harmony, peace and reconciliation, helping listeners find inner peace.
On Sundays, songs and Mass settings with “Dona nobis pacem” breathe musical life into the topic of peace. Twice a year the musical message of peace forms the core of spiritual Sunday music, which takes place once a fortnight. The major church festivals are put in musical form when Biblical texts set to music in Passions are performed at the annual “Cross and Resurrection” concert series before and at Easter, or when the Christmas Oratorio and other works are performed.
Enjoy a taste of the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, sung by the Frauenkirche’s chamber choir in 2009.

As well as the music itself, the Frauenkirche’s musicians also act as messengers. At Easter 2010 the Frauenkirche’s chamber choir travelled to England and gave concerts in several of the places the new church cross had also passed through on its reconciliatory trip to Germany. Following spiritual compositions by Schütz, Mendelssohn and Becker, a moving piece by Rudolf Mauersberger rang out in Coventry Cathedral: “Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst” (So Desolate is the City). The trip to Coventry was not only another building block in Dresden and Coventry’s city partnership, it also created musical and artistic prospects of the partnership developing as a symbol of reconciliation and the idea of the Cross of Nails.