 It seems likely that Antes wrote most of his vocal pieces while working at the Fulneck Moravian settlement.Most of his anthems use an English text, which support this idea, and the anthems that use German text were possibly written while he was in Neuwied, Germany the years before moving to Fulneck.Antes's string trios appear to have been written during the final two years of his mission in Egypt, while recuperating from the traumatic assault.