Telemann was a many splendoured thing: gardener, translator, theorist, publisher, poet, entrepreneur and an early tech-geek. He also earned himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as ...

Georg Philipp Telemann was one of the most celebrated musicians of the 18th century. In Europe, his fame eclipsed that of his close contemporaries Handel and Bach and he left behind him a vast legacy ...

Georg Philipp Telemann was one of history’s most prolific composers. He wrote some 3,000 works in virtually every existing genre, and at his death, in 1767, he was widely considered the leading ...

Today, J.S. Bach is regarded as the greatest German Baroque composer, but in the 18th century, Telemann was the more celebrated superstar, commanding a prestigious post as cantor of the city of ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Two internationally renowned German period instrument soloists will return to Port Townsend to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the lifetime of Georg Philipp Telemann, the 18th ...

I gave a favourable welcome to the first volume of Telemann’s orchestral and instrumental anthology last year (A/98). Now comes the second in a set which ultimately will number four discs. Telemann ...

It reverberated across continents and centuries. It harnessed lesser-played instruments, most prominently a Baroque bassoon. It even breathed stirring sound into a long-slumbering composition. “From ...

Performances of Baroque-era music typically feature works by composers whose names are familiar even to first-time concertgoers. Orchestra New England‘s upcoming BaroqueFest 2011 concert program would ...

During his long and remarkably prolific life, Georg Philipp Telemann was recognised as the leading German composer of the Baroque era, whose reputation in his time, was even greater than that of his ...