To 250. Death: The rediscovery of the Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann

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Georg Philipp Telemann was the most famous musicians of his time. However, he fell into oblivion. Wrong. Some of his 3600 works are now hear to be in Telemann’s anniversary year.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Based hero with a sense for business

    He United both quantity and quality. Georg Philipp Telemann left behind 3600 works, and is one of the most productive composers of all times. His symphonies, suites, cantatas, and operas, ranging stylistically from the Baroque to the early classic and set new standards. At the same time he was an enterprising music entrepreneurs.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    A “Dormouse Leader”?

    Telemann grew up in Magdeburg, in a pastor family. As a self-taught, the child Prodigy of violin, recorder and piano taught. With twelve he composed his first Opera. His mother is not impressed the. So he would not become a “juggler” or “Dormouse leader”, seized the instruments and forced a change of school – without him permanently from the path of the music to dissuade.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    “Learning’ what Decent…”

    Pressure from the woman’s mom Telemann studied law in Leipzig. On the way there, he stopped in the hall and became friends with Georg Friedrich Händel. In Leipzig, he mixed the music scene, founded the Amateur orchestra “Collegium Musicum”. From 1729, this took no one Less than Johann Sebastian Bach. The concerts were held in the one shown here, Café Zimmermann.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Compose and sing

    1708 Telemann concert master was at the court in Eisenach. There he founded an orchestra and eventually learned to know Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed concertos, cantatas, Church music and operettas for which he wrote the lyrics. Sometimes, he even sang as a baritone. Today, the concert hall in the castle of Wilhelmsthal is named near Kassel to him: tele-man room.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Self-Assured Business Man

    In 1712 Telemann became town musical Director and conductor of the St. Catherine’s Church in Frankfurt am Main. He held eagerly concerts and created other works. It is the tempting offer, Kapellmeister of the Saxon followed-Thuringian farms. Then he asked his service men in Frankfurt to salary increase and was the highest-paid musician in the city.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Hamburg’s Heyday

    Again Telemann changed his Job: 1721 began his main time in the Hanseatic city. Here he was “Director Musices”, then one of the most respected Offices in the city. He was Cantor for five Lutheran churches, the head of the Opera and publisher of the first German music magazine. 46-year-Telemann (1 worked. v. l.) in Hamburg – there is dedicated to him in the composer district is a Museum.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    International Star

    In Paris, by Georg Philipp Telemann how a country man was treated. For two years he lived and worked there. He was the first Non-Frenchman who performed at the “Concert Spirituel” – a concert series that was actually intended for new music from France. Telemann was famous all over Europe – showing the orders of his notes from France, Italy, Denmark, Spain and Norway.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Artist’s friendship with Georg Friedrich Händel

    Both studied law, both of which had only music in my head. Often, the composers met. Telemann: “…in the melodic sentences, ( … ), and their investigation, had Handel and I, bey öfftern Visit on both sides, as well as the body of the text, a constant employment employment employment.” In many compositions of the two masters of a platted the works of each other.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Opera-Writers

    50 operas composed by Telemann. Some of them are missing, many are found today, such as “Orpheus or The wonderful constancy of love”, which was staged in 2014 at the Opera in Frankfurt am Main. In his operas, used Telemann different style how to sing game-like arias or dancing themes.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Second Passion: Botany

    “Whether this [the music] is my farm and plow, and I to the main worship, ergetzen so I zugesellet but since then, a Par years, a Gefehrtinn, nemlich the Bluhmen-love,” writes Georg Philipp Telemann to a friend. The composer not only loved flowers that he held in his Hamburg period, a garden, and collected local and exotic plants.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Opulent Oeuvre

    Georg Philipp Telemann composed until his death at the age of 86. With insatiable, diligence, and liquid functioning, he created works in all sorts of genres – almost like on a conveyor belt. Many of them are missing. Is especially music from its Frankfurt and Hamburg time.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Admired, despised, and re-discovered

    Few artists have been perceived over the centuries so radically different. To be enjoyed during his lifetime, Telemann View large. Shortly after his death, he was generally considered to be much writer with a penchant for cheap effects. In the meantime, it has been discovered Telemann In Magdeburg Telemann held since 1962, regularly.

    Author: Nadine Wojcik


  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Based hero with a sense for business

    He United both quantity and quality. Georg Philipp Telemann left behind 3600 works, and is one of the most productive composers of all times. His symphonies, suites, cantatas, and operas, ranging stylistically from the Baroque to the early classic and set new standards. At the same time he was an enterprising music entrepreneurs.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    A “Dormouse Leader”?

    Telemann grew up in Magdeburg, in a pastor family. As a self-taught, the child Prodigy of violin, recorder and piano taught. With twelve he composed his first Opera. His mother is not impressed the. So he would not become a “juggler” or “Dormouse leader”, seized the instruments and forced a change of school – without him permanently from the path of the music to dissuade.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    “Learning’ what Decent…”

    Pressure from the woman’s mom Telemann studied law in Leipzig. On the way there, he stopped in the hall and became friends with Georg Friedrich Händel. In Leipzig, he mixed the music scene, founded the Amateur orchestra “Collegium Musicum”. From 1729, this took no one Less than Johann Sebastian Bach. The concerts were held in the one shown here, Café Zimmermann.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Compose and sing

    1708 Telemann concert master was at the court in Eisenach. There he founded an orchestra and eventually learned to know Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed concertos, cantatas, Church music and operettas for which he wrote the lyrics. Sometimes, he even sang as a baritone. Today, the concert hall in the castle of Wilhelmsthal is named near Kassel to him: tele-man room.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Self-Assured Business Man

    In 1712 Telemann became town musical Director and conductor of the St. Catherine’s Church in Frankfurt am Main. He held eagerly concerts and created other works. It is the tempting offer, Kapellmeister of the Saxon followed-Thuringian farms. Then he asked his service men in Frankfurt to salary increase and was the highest-paid musician in the city.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Hamburg’s Heyday

    Again Telemann changed his Job: 1721 began his main time in the Hanseatic city. Here he was “Director Musices”, then one of the most respected Offices in the city. He was Cantor for five Lutheran churches, the head of the Opera and publisher of the first German music magazine. 46-year-Telemann (1 worked. v. l.) in Hamburg – there is dedicated to him in the composer district is a Museum.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    International Star

    In Paris, by Georg Philipp Telemann how a country man was treated. For two years he lived and worked there. He was the first Non-Frenchman who performed at the “Concert Spirituel” – a concert series that was actually intended for new music from France. Telemann was famous all over Europe – showing the orders of his notes from France, Italy, Denmark, Spain and Norway.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Artist’s friendship with Georg Friedrich Händel

    Both studied law, both of which had only music in my head. Often, the composers met. Telemann: “…in the melodic sentences, ( … ), and their investigation, had Handel and I, bey öfftern Visit on both sides, as well as the body of the text, a constant employment employment employment.” In many compositions of the two masters of a platted the works of each other.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Opera-Writers

    50 operas composed by Telemann. Some of them are missing, many are found today, such as “Orpheus or The wonderful constancy of love”, which was staged in 2014 at the Opera in Frankfurt am Main. In his operas, used Telemann different style how to sing game-like arias or dancing themes.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Second Passion: Botany

    “Whether this [the music] is my farm and plow, and I to the main worship, ergetzen so I zugesellet but since then, a Par years, a Gefehrtinn, nemlich the Bluhmen-love,” writes Georg Philipp Telemann to a friend. The composer not only loved flowers that he held in his Hamburg period, a garden, and collected local and exotic plants.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Opulent Oeuvre

    Georg Philipp Telemann composed until his death at the age of 86. With insatiable, diligence, and liquid functioning, he created works in all sorts of genres – almost like on a conveyor belt. Many of them are missing. Is especially music from its Frankfurt and Hamburg time.

  • Who is Georg Philipp Telemann?

    Admired, despised, and re-discovered

    Few artists have been perceived over the centuries so radically different. To be enjoyed during his lifetime, Telemann View large. Shortly after his death, he was generally considered to be much writer with a penchant for cheap effects. In the meantime, it has been discovered Telemann In Magdeburg Telemann held since 1962, regularly.

    Author: Nadine Wojcik


How to respond when the twelve-year-old son to learn secretly several instruments and even composed an Opera? Presumably, one would look for him as soon as possible, a music teacher. The mother of Georg Philipp Telemann, however, was horrified. She was afraid of how Telemann remarked later that he was going to Mumbles, a “juggler, rope dancer, Fiddler, or marmot tamer”. The mother seized all the instruments and sent him to another school. But all this availed nothing. The young Telemann, of the time life is supposed to have only two weeks of piano lessons and a few songs and enjoyed could not leave it and continue the game on all sorts of instruments: violin, Viol, Oboe, organ, or bass trombone.

Georg Philipp Telemann, 1681 born in Magdeburg, and in 1767, in Hamburg died, with 3,600 works of one of the most productive composers of all times. However, this was not considered to be always positive. To his own lifetime he was the most famous composer in the German-speaking countries. Shortly after his death, he was regarded, however, as superficial writers. Unlike his friend Georg Friedrich Handel, with whom he maintained a close professional exchange, he fell largely into oblivion.

As Telemann was a child, were musicians as a juggler. His passion for music, he was hiding.

Completely wrong, as music scholars judge today. The music world is opening again his extensive work. Not all of it is: Many of the compositions of the early years are missing. “Telemann was a Great of his time, a more worldly, enlightened musician of boundless creative energy,” says the musicologist and conductor Hermann Max.

Experimental Jack Of All Trades

Telemann’s works and Aesthetics had a decisive influence on the Baroque and also for colleagues such as Georg Friedrich Händel a new impetus. He did not specify a style, but rather took steadily new influences, such as Italian or French, in his Work. With a stay in the Polish city of Cracow he even pub music have inspired.

Magdeburg monument: “Telemann and the four temperaments”

“Telemann wrote a lot of use of music, through him, a vibrant chamber music scene in all the places where he had emerged, most recently in Hamburg,” said the recorder player and conductor Dorothee Oberlinger, Telemann Ambassador for the jubilee year, to the news Agency KNA. “We suddenly find a French Suite, an Italian Aria, and then a German piece. Then again, he brings unusual instruments or combinations of instruments into the solo spotlight, as the viola or the double bass.”

Beyond the musical Plate

The composer loved also the song that was sometimes even as a baritone in his pieces. Typical for his compositions and singing are melodies and imaginative use of tone colors. The Telemann-Werke-directory has around 1000 instrumentals, 1750 Church cantatas, 16 trade fairs and 40 pass.

Some pieces of jewelry this opulent work will now be on the occasion of its 250. Death played again. Numerous concerts are planned in the cities in which he worked. A network of ten Telemann-cities has emerged, which inform in addition to events, meetings, and Workshops also available online on the composer. His birth city of Magdeburg declared for the year 2017 for the Telemann-the anniversary year and provides, among other things, the Open-Air concerts and jazz improvisations in the spirit of Georg Philipp Telemann. This fits well to the Honoree: the view over The musical horizon was the Telemann always drive.