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

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.



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.

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