Composer
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
1681–1767
1,316 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1681
- Died
- 1767
- Birthplace
- Magdeburg
- Place of death
- Hamburg
- Citizenship / historical state
- Holy Roman Empire
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Baroque
Biography
Telemann wrote more music than any other composer in history — well over three thousand works — and he wrote a great deal of it deliberately for competent amateurs, which makes him unusually useful to anyone who is not a professional.
The recorder and flute sonatas, the Fantasias for solo flute and for violin, and the trio sonatas are the core of it, and they sit at a difficulty where a good amateur can play them properly rather than approximately. The Tafelmusik collections are the same music at chamber scale.
Almost everything is out of copyright and freely available, but continuo realisations vary in quality enormously and a bad one makes the music sound stiff. For anything you intend to perform, the realisation is what you are paying a modern edition for.
Life and musical career
- Occupations
- classical composer; chapelmaster; organist; composer; independent publisher; conductor
- Education
- Leipzig University; Lessing-Gymnasium
- Instruments played
- organ
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Selected notable works
- Water Music; Emma und Eginhard; Germanicus; Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon; Der geduldige Socrates; Sieg der Schönheit; Orpheus; Miriways; Flavius Bertaridus; Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho; Viola concerto in G major; Concerto for 2 violas
- Pseudonym
- Georgio Melande; Melante
- Languages used
- German
- VIAF ID
- 71579513
- ISNI
- 0000000109144172
- GND ID
- 11862119X
- Library of Congress ID
- n79117028
- MusicBrainz ID
- 8f831f50-e409-47c3-8598-71a61bc8cfb3
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Flute, Continuo, violin, Recorder
- Genres represented
- Classical, pop
- Source entries with composition dates
- 12
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue page 28 of 28
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. The biography above is our own. Authority record: VIAF 71579513. Portrait: Valentin Daniel Preisler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.