Telemann: Don Quixote / La Lyra / Ouverture In D Minor

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Cat No: 8554019

Release Date: 05 January 2003

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 636943401927

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: TELEMANN

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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)Don Quixote Suite Ouverture in D minor Suite in E flatmajor, 'La Lyra'Georg Philipp Telemann was among the most distinguishedcomposers of his time, a rival to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach inreputation, and the certain preference of the Leipzig authorities for theposition of Cantor at the St Thomas Choir School, where Bach was eventuallyappointed in 1723. Telemann had, in 1721, taken the position of Cantor of theJohanneum in Hamburg, with musical responsibility for the five principal citychurches of the city. His negotiations with Leipzig a year later proved the meansto secure better conditions in Hamburg, where he remained until his death in1767. He was succeeded there by his godson Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son ofJohann Sebastian.Born in Magdeburg in 1681, Telemann belonged to a familythat had long been connected with the Lutheran Church. His father was aclergyman and his mother the daughter of a clergyman, while his elder brotheralso took orders, a path that he too might have followed, had it not been forhis exceptional musical ability. As a child he showed some precocity, but itwas while he was a student at Leipzig University, which he entered in 1701,that a career in music became inevitable. He founded the University CollegiumMusicum that Bach was later to direct and in 1703 became musical director ofthe Leipzig Opera, composing some twenty operas himself. At the same time heinvolved his fellow-students in a great deal of public performance, to theannoyance of the Thomascantor, Bach's immediate predecessor Kuhnau, who saw hisprerogative now endangered.After Leipzig, Telemann went on to become Kapellmeister toCount Erdmann II of Promnitz, anobleman with a taste for French music, and in 1708 moved to Eisenach,following this with a position as director of music to the city of Frankfurt amMain in 1712. There were other offers of employment elsewhere, but it was toHamburg that he finally moved in 1721, to remain there for the rest of hislife.As a composer Telemann was prolific, providing an enormousbody of work, both sacred and secular. This included 1043 church cantatas and46 settings of the Passions, one for each of the years he was in Hamburg. Hecontinued to involve himself in public performances of opera in Hamburg,arousing some opposition from the city council, his employers. Once he had strengthenedhis position he took additional responsibility as director of the HamburgOpera, while active in publishing and selling much of the music that he wrote.Four years Bach's senior, he outlived him by seventeen years, so that by thetime of his death Haydn was thirty-five and Mozart was eleven. His musicalstyle developed with the times, from the characteristically late Baroque to thenew stile galant exemplified by his godson.In his later years Telemann returned to an episode fromCervantes' influential novel Don Quijote de la Mancha in a serenade based onDon Quixote's attendance at Camacho's wedding. His lig
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