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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Composer of the Week: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Episode 4

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

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BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Episode 4

Donald Macleod explores music Telemann wrote especially for a trip to Paris in 1737.

Donald Macleod explores music Telemann wrote especially for a trip to Paris in 1737, including chamber works for flute, violin and continuo, and a psalm setting.

In October 1737 Telemann took up a longstanding offer to visit Paris where he was welcomed with open arms. Donald Macleod looks at the works Telemann wrote especially for his trip, including a selection of chamber works for flute, violin and continuo and a psalm setting performed twice at Paris' prestigious Concert Spirituel.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod on the life and work of Telemann, the baroque era's most prolific composer.

Donald Macleod reviews the life and work of Telemann, most prolific composer of the baroque era, whose reputation, in his time, was even greater than that of his compatriot, Bach

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