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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 5

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Episode 5

Donald Macleod explores Telemann's musical comeback in the last ten years of his life.

Donald Macleod explores Telemann's remarkable comeback in the last ten years of his life when he wrote some of his greatest works. With the orchestral suite based on Don Quixote.

After a long break, during which Telemann's productivity fell off dramatically, he made a remarkable comeback in the last ten years of his life when he wrote some of his greatest works. Donald Macleod introduces the colourful orchestral suite based on Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, and one of the finest examples of Telemann's word-painting in his last secular cantata.

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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