In Telemann’s time, the city of Dresden was something out of a fairy tale. In the upcoming show Fire and Invention: Telemann’s Showpieces for the Dresden Virtuosi, Tempesta di Mare revisits Dresden’s magic moment with.
Imagine Bach and Handel in their music rooms in Leipzig and London, sitting down, opening the fresh, clean pages of music straight off the press, and playing something new they’d just received from their good.
The world is throwing a grand anniversary party this year for one of the most deserving and long-overlooked artists in Baroque music, Georg Philipp Telemann. Published in the Fall 2017 print issue of Early Music.
MOVEABLE TYPE The process of printing music with moveable type was similar to printing text: individual blocks of type were lined up in a row, locked together, placed in a printing press, inked and pressed.
One of the most celebrated and prolific composers of the German Baroque, his mastery of many styles and incredible ingenuity and inventiveness have brought him renewed popularity.
"As an expat, I’m interested in what happens to artists’ work when they end up in different places than where they begin, and in this case, it was particularly poignant to discover and perform real.
In 1737, during a visit to Paris, German composer Georg Philipp Telemann got to hear his new Paris Quartets premiered by some of France’s best musicians, a remarkable experience that Tempesta di Mare will bring.
This Summer and Fall discover throughout Philadelphia gardens some of the same flowers Georg Philipp Telemann had in his 1742 Garden and get ready to celebrate his genius with us during the Telemann 360° Festival.
This Fall, discover baroque Germany’s favorite composer, Georg Philipp Telemann, through ear-opening performances of orchestral and chamber music, a mixed-discipline talk-show, and pop-up events in gardens, pubs, museums and boats across Philadelphia.
Join us for an evening of music, food and wine on the river at Bartram's Garden, America's oldest living botanical garden. Discover plants that both John Bartram and baroque-era composer Georg Philipp Telemann grew in.
