Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

Lucie Skeaping explores the folk music Telemann encountered on his brief sojourn in Poland and some of the pieces he composed with those influences at the forefront of his mind. Show more For just ...

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 Phillip Telemann was the most prolific composer of his time. He wrote more than 100 concerti for one, two, three or even four instruments. Musica Antiqua Koeln plays Telemann's Concerto in D ...

Experience the latest instalment in Australian baroque violinist and early music specialist Elizabeth Wallfisch’s epic series of recordings celebrating the music of Georg Philipp Telemann. The eighth ...

On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation some unlikely musical works are being dusted off. Telemann wrote his so-called “Reformation” Oratorio, Holder Friede, heil’ger Glaube, in 1755 to mark 200 ...

The natural world is a rich source of inspiration for creative minds … including composers! Georg Philipp Telemann composed a piece nicknamed the CRICKET SYMPHONY that features a cacophony of cricket ...

The German port city of Hamburg was Georg Philipp Telemann's adopted hometown, so he knew about the importance of its sea-faring lifestyle. In 1723 he wrote a special suite called "Hamburg Ebb and ...

Telemann was probably the most prolific composer in musical history. He wrote almost as much as Bach and Handel put together (and each of them wrote a perplexing amount) including 600 French overtures ...

Hannah French marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Georg Philipp Telemann with a programme devoted to the composer's visit to Paris in 1737. Telemann was a huge star at this point in his career ...