Telemann: Viola Concerto / Recorder Suite In A Minor / Tafelmusik

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Cat No: 8550156

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030501560

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: TELEMANN

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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)Concerto in G major for viola and stringsSuite in A minor for recorder and stringsConcerto in F major for three violins(from Musique de table) Concerto for two horns and strings (fromMusique de table)Georg Philipp Telemann was among the mostdistinguished composers of his time, a rival to his friend Johann SebastianBach in reputation, and the certain preference of the Leipzig authorities forthe position of Kantor at the school of St, Thomas, where Bach was eventuallyappointed in 1723. Telemann had, in 1721, taken the position of Kantor of theJohanneum in Hamburg, with musical responsibility for the five principalchurches of the city. His negotiations with Leipzig a year later proved themeans to secure better conditions in Hamburg, where he remained until his deathin 1767. He was succeeded by his godson, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son ofJohann Sebastian.Born in Magdeburg in 1781, Telemannbelonged to a family that had long been connected with the Lutheran Church. Hisfather was a clergyman and his mother the daughter of a clergyman, and hiselder brother also took orders, a path that he too might have followed, had itnot been for his exceptional musical ability. As a child he showed someprecocity, but it was while he was a student at Leipzig University, which heentered in 1701, that a career in music became inevitable. He founded theuniversity collegium musicum that Bach was later to direct and in 1703 becamemusical director of the Leipzig Opera. At the same time he involvedfellow-students in a great deal of public performance, to the annoyance of theThomaskantor, Bach's immediate predecessor Kuhnau, who saw his prerogative nowinfringed.After Leipzig Telemann went on to becomeKapellmeister to the Count of Promnitz, a nobleman with a taste for Frenchmusic, and in 1708 moved to Eisenach, following this with a position asdirector of music to the city of Frankfurt am Main in 1712. There were otheroffers of employment elsewhere, but it was to Hamburg that he finally moved in1721, to remain there for the rest of his life.As a composer Telemann was prolific,providing an enormous body of work, both sacred and secular. This included 1043church cantatas and settings of the Passion for each year that he was inHamburg, 46 in all. In Leipzig he had written operas, and he continued toinvolve himself in public performances in Hamburg, arousing some oppositionfrom the city council, his employers. Once he had strengthened his position hetook additional responsibility as musical director of the Hamburg opera, whilehe was active in publishing and selling much of the music that he wrote.The G major Viola Concerto is agood example of the attractions of Telemann's style as a composer, its fourshort movements suggesting the beginnings of the style galant that was toprevail over the contrapuntal complexities of the late Baroque. The Concertofor three violins and the Concerto for two horns form part of the Musiquede table, published in Hamb
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