Moveable Type vs. Engraving

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.

Dream Vacation

Dream Vacation

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.

Telemann 360°

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.

A Summer Concert & Soirée

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.

Summer Blockbuster

It’s the last show of Tempesta di Mare’s year of the The Four Seasons. Banish those thoughts of lazy days and clinking ice in cold drinks. In Summer, Vivaldi takes us stormchasing for one of.

A Bohemian State of Mind

During the baroque era, Bohemia more or less disappeared from map of European culture. But invisibly, it made its presence known. Those big European capitals of the baroque world—Dresden, Berlin, London, Paris—were well enriched by.