 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.The trios were published by John Bland, a London Publisher, during the early 1790s, under a pseudonym, "Giovanni A-T-S," instead of the name Antes.A common theory is that Antes did not consider himself a worthy composer, and therefore did not want to use his real name.