Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught, he became a composer against his family's wishes and ranked among the leading German musicians of his age.
Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving oeuvre, and his contemporaries ranked him among the foremost German composers of the day. He was compared favourably with his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made him godfather and namesake of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and with George Frideric Handel, whom he also knew personally.
His music draws on French, Italian and Polish national styles. He stayed alert to new musical tendencies, and his work forms an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles.
Compositions by Georg Philipp Telemann appear on
Fantasies
Dutch-born Esther van Stralen, principal violist of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, shapes this recital from her own wide-ranging tastes: earlier works on baroque viola sit beside a broad sweep of twentieth-century solo writing.
Horn Concertos
Hector McDonald, then Solo Principal Horn of the Vienna Symphony, joins the Academy of Melbourne under Brett Kelly in a programme of horn concertos by Haydn, Förster, Telemann and Teyber.