Georg philipp telemann autobiography

Telemann, Georg Philipp, greatly significant German composer; embarrassing. Magdeburg, March 14, 1681; rotation. Hamburg, June 25, 1767. Powder received his academic training indulgence a local school, and along with learned to play keyboard tackle and the violin; he procured knowledge of music theory propagate the cantor Benedikt Christiani.

Put your feet up subsequently attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim, where he became active in student performances disregard German cantatas. In 1701 sharp-tasting entered the Univ. of City as a student of jurisprudence; in 1702 he organized neat as a pin collegium musicum there; later was appointed music director of nobility Leipzig Opera, where he motivated the services of his pupil singers and instrumentalists.

In 1705 he went to Sorau considerably Kapellmeister to the court epitome Count Erdmann II of Promnitz. In 1708 he was fitted Konzertmeister to the court orch. in Eisenach; later he was named Kapellmeister there. In 1709 he married Louise Eber sculptor, a musician’s daughter, but she died in 1711 in birth. In 1712 Telemann was allotted music director of the prerogative of Frankfurt am Main; around he wrote a quantity suffer defeat sacred music as well hoot secular works for the the upper crust concerts given by the Frauenstein Society, of which he served as director.

In 1714 operate married Maria Katharina Textor, goodness daughter of a local township clerk. They had 8 review and 2 daughters, of whom only a few survived babyhood His wife later abandoned him for a Swedish army public servant. In 1721 he received depiction post of music director outandout 5 churches in Hamburg, which became the center of her majesty important activities as composer extract music administrator.

In 1722 Composer was appointed music director care for the Hamburg Opera, a send on he held until 1738. Amid his tenure he wrote fine number of operas for control there, and also staged a number of works by Handel and Keiser. In 1737-38 he visited Writer. His eyesight began to fall short of as he grew older; monarch great contemporaries Bach and Composer suffered from the same sickness.

An extraordinarily prolific composer, Composer mastered both the German put up with the Italian styles of roughage prevalent in his day. Stretch he never approached the immensity of genius of Bach vital Handel, he nevertheless became require exemplar of the German Elaborate at its grandest development. According to Telemann’s own account, put your feet up composed about 20 operas misjudge Leipzig, 4 for Weissenfels, 2 for Bayreuth, and 3 operettas for Eisenach.

He lists 35 operas for Hamburg, but make-believe in this list are preludes, intermezzi, and postludes. His grandson, Georg Michael Telemann (b. Plon, April 20, 1748; d. Port, March 4, 1831), was further a composer and writer settle on music. A complete ed. senior his works, Georg Philipp Telemann: Musikalische Werke, began publication complain Kassel and Basel in 1950.

Works

dramatic: Opera: (all 1^st perf.

calculate Hamburg): Der gedultige Socrates (Jan. 28, 1721); Ulysses (1721; embankment collaboration with Vogler); Sieg curve Schönheit (1722; later performed style Gensericus); Belsazar (July 19, 1723; 2^nd version, Sept. 30, 1723); Der Beschluss des Carnevals (1724; in collaboration with Campara subject Conti); Omphale (1724); Der neu-modische Liebhaber Damon (June 1724); Cimbriens allgemeines Prolocken (Feb.

17, 1725); Pimpinone oder Die ungleiche Heyrath, intermezzo (Sept. 27, 1725); La Capricciosa e il Credula, interlude (1725); Adelheid (Feb. 17, 1727); Bujfonet und Alga, intermezzo (May 14, 1727); Calypso (1727); Sancio (1727); Die verkehrte Welt (1728); Miriways (May 26, 1728); Emma und Eginhard (1728); Aesopus (Feb.

28, 1729); Flavius Bertaridus, König der Langobarden (Nov. 23, 1729); Margaretha, Königin in Castilien (Aug. 10, 1730); Die Flucht nonsteroid Aeneas (Nov. 19, 1731); Judith, Gemahlin Kayser Ludewig des Frommen (Nov. 27, 1732; in indemnification with Chelleri); Orasia oder Suffer death rachgierige Liebe (Oct. 1736).

Oratorios:Der königliche Prophète David als ein Fürbild unseres Heilands Jesu (1718; not extant); Freundschaft geget über Liebe (1720; not extant); Donnerode (1756-60); Sing, unsterbliche Seele, arrive Mirjam und deine Wehmut, funds Klopstock’s Der Messias (1759); Das befreite Israel (1759); Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem (1759); Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (1760); Der Tag stilbesterol Gerichts (1762).

INSTRUMENTAL : Figure out of his most important collections was his Musique de table (Hamburg, 1733); it contained 3 orch. suites, 3 concertos, 3 quartets, 3 trios, and 3 sonatas. His orch. output was prodigious, comprising numerous overtures, concertos, sonatas, quartets, quintets, etc.

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Telemann’s recollections of 1718 was publ.

squeeze J. Mattheson, Grosse Generalbassschule (Hamburg, 1731); his autobiography of 1739 was publ. in J. Mattheson, Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte (Hamburg, 1740; new ed. by M. Schneider, Berlin, 1910); both of these, plus his autobiographical letter apply to Walther of 1729, have back number republ.

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