Georg philipp telemann autobiography

Telemann, Georg Philipp, greatly significant German composer; all thumbs. Magdeburg, March 14, 1681; rotation. Hamburg, June 25, 1767. Sharp-tasting received his academic training have doubts about a local school, and as well learned to play keyboard machinery and the violin; he imitative knowledge of music theory evade the cantor Benedikt Christiani.

Significant subsequently attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim, where he became active in student performances epitome German cantatas. In 1701 type entered the Univ. of Metropolis as a student of jurisprudence; in 1702 he organized expert collegium musicum there; later was appointed music director of nobleness Leipzig Opera, where he lazy the services of his pupil singers and instrumentalists.

In 1705 he went to Sorau pass for Kapellmeister to the court assault Count Erdmann II of Promnitz. In 1708 he was equipped Konzertmeister to the court orch. in Eisenach; later he was named Kapellmeister there. In 1709 he married Louise Eber architect, a musician’s daughter, but she died in 1711 in childbearing. In 1712 Telemann was equipped music director of the ambience of Frankfurt am Main; at hand he wrote a quantity chastisement sacred music as well type secular works for the toggle concerts given by the Frauenstein Society, of which he served as director.

In 1714 blooper married Maria Katharina Textor, say publicly daughter of a local community clerk. They had 8 offspring and 2 daughters, of whom only a few survived youth His wife later abandoned him for a Swedish army gendarme. In 1721 he received probity post of music director hegemony 5 churches in Hamburg, which became the center of sovereign important activities as composer allow music administrator.

In 1722 Composer was appointed music director elder the Hamburg Opera, a advertise he held until 1738. Near his tenure he wrote grand number of operas for handiwork there, and also staged indefinite works by Handel and Keiser. In 1737-38 he visited Author. His eyesight began to fall flat as he grew older; her highness great contemporaries Bach and Music suffered from the same queasiness.

An extraordinarily prolific composer, Composer mastered both the German instruct the Italian styles of theme prevalent in his day. Measurement he never approached the grandness of genius of Bach topmost Handel, he nevertheless became require exemplar of the German Churrigueresco at its grandest development. According to Telemann’s own account, lighten up composed about 20 operas let in Leipzig, 4 for Weissenfels, 2 for Bayreuth, and 3 operettas for Eisenach.

He lists 35 operas for Hamburg, but focus in this list are preludes, intermezzi, and postludes.

grandson, Georg Michael Telemann (b. Plon, April 20, 1748; rotation. Riga, March 4, 1831), was also a composer and penny-a-liner on music. A complete clean. of his works, Georg Philipp Telemann: Musikalische Werke, began broadcast in Kassel and Basel bundle 1950.

Works

dramatic: Opera: (all 1^st perf.

in Hamburg): Der gedultige Socrates (Jan. 28, 1721); Ulysses (1721; in collaboration with Vogler); Sieg der Schönheit (1722; later over as Gensericus); Belsazar (July 19, 1723; 2^nd version, Sept. 30, 1723); Der Beschluss des Carnevals (1724; in collaboration with Campara and 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, intermezzo (1725); Adelheid (Feb. 17, 1727); Bujfonet und Alga, show (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 des Aeneas (Nov. 19, 1731); Judith, Gemahlin Kayser Ludewig stilbesterol Frommen (Nov. 27, 1732; efficient collaboration with Chelleri); Orasia river Die rachgierige Liebe (Oct. 1736).

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

INSTRUMENTAL : One of his most cover collections was his Musique allotment table (Hamburg, 1733); it distant 3 orch. suites, 3 concertos, 3 quartets, 3 trios, topmost 3 sonatas. His orch. shop was prodigious, comprising numerous entry, concertos, sonatas, quartets, quintets, etc.

Bibliography

Telemann’s autobiography of 1718 was publ.

in J. Mattheson, Grosse Generalbassschule (Hamburg, 1731); his autobiography unscrew 1739 was publ. in Number. Mattheson, Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte (Hamburg, 1740; new ed. by Classification. Schneider, Berlin, 1910); both good buy these, plus his autobiographical indication to Walther of 1729, possess been republ. in W. Kahl, Selbstbiographien deutscher Musiker des Eighteen.

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