Interesting Facts

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

1681-1701
Magdeburg, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Hildesheim

1701-1712
Leipzig, Sorau (Żary), Pleß (Pszczyna), Eisenach

1712-1721
Frankfurt am Main

1721-1739
Hamburg, Paris

1740-1767
Hamburg



Barfüsser Church Frankfurt, Copperplate engraving from 1718

1712-1721

  • Municipal director of music in Frankfurt/Main
  • composition of cantatas for each Sunday as well as for festive days of the whole ecclesiastical year, occasional comissions, orchestra- and chamber music
  • Foundation and direction of a collegium musicum
  • Host of concerts
  • Secretary and administrator of the Frauenstein corporation

 

1714

  • Godfather of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

1715
  • Foundation of the Telemann publishing house (until 1740)


1716

  • Passion oratorio after the libretto of Barthold Heinrich Brockes


1717

  • Travels to Thüringen
  • Innate chapel master in Eisenach (obligation to regularly provide compositions for Eisenach)


1719

  • Travels to Dresden for the wedding of the Crown Prince of Saxony
  • Meetings with Händel, Pisendel and various famous musicians and composers
Brockes Passion from 1716, (c) University Library Frankfurt