History Music / GeorgPhilippTelemann

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In 1721 he accepted a similar position in the Free City of UsefulNotes/{{Hamburg}}, and there he stayed until the end of his life, apart from a sabbatical in Paris (1737-1738), not just as director of church music, but also as director of the opera house and freelance musical entrepreneur. Telemann is credited with a number of "firsts", for instance the first solo concert for viola, the first musical journal (''Der getreue Musikmeister'') and the first use of Polish and Moravian folk-musical elements in concert-level music. His "Table Music" was sent out to subscribers all over Europe, and Telemann also wrote poetry and theoretical works in several languages. After his death, the position of director of Hamburg's church music was given to his godson, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Georg Philipp Telemann (24 March [14 March in the Julian calendar] 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German composer of the Baroque era. He was a very prolific self-taught composer who composed works in various genres, including concertos, orchestral suites, and operas. Telemann was the most famous and highly regarded composer in the Western world during the late Baroque era. He lived to the ripe old age of 86. Some of his more famous works include the Trumpet Concerto in D major, the Suite for Recorder and Orchestra in A minor, and the Hamburger Ebb and Flow Suite in C major.

* OneHitWonder: While Telemann is one of the most prolific composers, he's most likely mainly known in the modern day for his viola concerto. The piece is used as a popular teaching method for people learning viola and is very frequently performed and recorded.

Georg Philipp Telemann (24 March [14 March in the Gregorian calendar] 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German composer of the Baroque era. He was a very prolific self-taught composer who composed works in various genres, including concertos, orchestral suites, and operas. Telemann was the most famous and highly regarded composer in the Western world during the late Baroque era. He lived to the ripe old age of 86. Some of his more famous works include the Trumpet Concerto in D major, the Suite for Recorder and Orchestra in A minor, and the Hamburger Ebb and Flow Suite in C major.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was a German composer of the Baroque era. He was a very prolific self-taught composer who composed works in various genres, including concertos, orchestral suites, and operas. Telemann was the most famous and highly regarded composer in the Western world during the late Baroque era. He lived to the ripe old age of 86. Some of his more famous works include the Trumpet Concerto in D major, the Suite for Recorder and Orchestra in A minor, and the Hamburger Ebb and Flow Suite in C major.

Following his mother's wishes, Telemann began to study law at Leipzig University in 1701, meeting a sixteen-year-old keen musician called [[Music/GeorgeFredericHandel Georg Friedrich Händel]] and becoming friends with him when he stopped on the way in Halle. In Leipzig the lure of music became too much and immediately he began to compose cantatas for St. Thomas's church and founded an amateur orchstra, the Collegium Musicum, which also became the main orchestra of Leipzig's opera house. In 1705 he left Leipzig to head the orchestra of a count in Sorau, in 1708 he became head of the ducal orchestra in Eisenach. Here he met Music/JohannSebastianBach and became friends with him too, as well as the godfather to Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Seeking a new challenge, Telemann applied for and received the position of director of church music of the Free City of Frankfurt (1712-1721).

* [[ItsPopularNowItSucks It Was Popular, So It Sucks]]: Telemann was the most (commercially) successful and highly regarded German composer of his time and in the course of a long and productive life wrote more music than Bach and Händel combined. After Bach was rediscovered in the mid-19th century, it became fashionable among musicologists and music-lovers to regard him as ''the'' great genius of BaroqueMusic. Since Bach had not been very successful commercially, it was easy to paint him as [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible a misunderstood and unappreciated master]] who wrote for eternity while the "shallow" Telemann marketed himself by pandering to the tastes of the uncouth audience and producing notes as if in a factory. It would take over a century, during which other German Baroque composers besides Bach and Händel were rediscovered and reappreciated, for Telemann to (largely) regain his original stature. The ironic thing was that Bach and Telemann admired each other and Bach not only copied out by hand entire cantatas written by Telemann, but would also sometimes incorporate Telemann scores into his own works, as was perfectly normal in the 18th century (before copyright laws). And then admirers of Bach like Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer (yes, ''that'' Albert Schweitzer) inadvertently used pieces attributed to Bach but actually written by Telemann (as it turned out after musicologists properly took stock of the surviving part of Telemann's huge oeuvre) to "prove" the nigh-infinite superiority of Bach over Telemann.

* ChildProdigy: A straight example. He taught himself to play the violin, recorder and piano as a child and composed his first pieces of music at age ten

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Following his mother's wishes, Telemann began to study law at Leipzig University in 1701, meeting a sixteen-year-old keen musician called [[Music/GeorgeFredericHandel Georg Friedrich Händel]] and becoming friends with him when he stopped on the way in Halle. In Leipzig the lure of music became too much and immediately he began to compose cantatas for St. Thomas's church and founded an amateur orchstra, the Collegium Musicum, which also became the main orchestra of Leipzig's opera house. In 1705 he left Leipzig to head the orchestra of a count in Sorau, in 1708 he became head of the ducal orchestra in Eisenach. Here he met Music/JohannSebastianBach and became friends with him too; he

* ChildProdigy: During his youth in Magdeburg, his family tried to discourage him from involving himself with music because that was then considered neither a really honorable trade nor a lucrative one. In spite of this, he taught himself to play the violin, recorder and piano as a child. Composed his first pieces of music at age ten, at which age he already started to substitute for the cantor in the upper classes of his school. Telemann composed his first opera, ''Sigismundus'', at age twelve, after which his mother confiscated his musical instruments and sent him to a school in another town in a vain attempt to stop him from "wasting his time" on music. "Unfortunately" young Telemann was encouraged in his musical endeavours there by the local church superintendent.

* ChildProdigy: Despite not being encouraged by his family (because music was then considered neither a really honorable trade nor a lucrative one), he taught himself to play the violin, recorder and piano as a child. Composed his first pieces of music at age ten, at which age he already started to substitute for the cantor in the upper classes of his school. Composed his first opera, ''Sigismundus'' at age twelve, after which his mother confiscated his musical instruments and sent him to a school in another town in a vain attempt to stop him from "wasting his time" on music. "Unfortunately" young Telemann was encouraged in his musical endeavours there by the local church superintendent.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was a German composer of the Baroque era. He was a very prolific self-taught composer who composed works in various genres, including concertos, orchestral suites, and operas. Telemann was the most famous and highly regarded composer in the Western world during the late Baroque era. He lived to the ripe old age of 86. Some of his more famous works include the Trumpet Concerto in D major, the Suite for Recorder and Orchestra in A minor, and the Hamburger Ebb and Flow Suite in C major.