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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 3

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

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

Donald Macleod on some of the many collections Telemann published and marketed himself.

Donald Macleod on some of the many collections Telemann published and marketed himself, including chamber music for nearly every instrument that existed at the time of writing.

With his astute business sense, Telemann no doubt had an eye to the financial advantages of publishing his own music, but he also had a genuine desire to make sheet music more readily available to anyone who could afford to buy it. Donald Macleod looks at some of the many collections Telemann published and marketed himself, including a range of chamber music for virtually every instrument in existence at the time, a collection of small-scale sacred cantatas for use in the home and the most popular of all his passion oratorios.

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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