Georg Philipp Telemann

event persuaded his father to allow Handel to pursue his musical career. When his father died in1697, Handel was freed from his father's will. He studied with numerous organists and gained minor fame. In 1703, he moved to Hamburg. There he met Telemann and began to have many of his works performed. He then traveled to Rome and numerous European capitals until he settled in England in 1714. He remained a world traveler his entire life which was a main contributing factor to his originality and

On March 14, 1681 Georg Phillip Telemann was born in Magdeburg, Germany. Georg is mainly self-taught, his family does not have musical background at all. The few exceptions to this are at the age of ten when he received singing lessons and 2 weeks of keyboard lessons. At the age of twelve without further lessons he can play three instruments and has composed an opera. ("Telemann, Georg Phillip.") Through self-teaching he learned how to play the violin, recorder, oboe, viola da gamba, chalumeau, and

Many people argue who is the greatest composer in music. It merely comes down to one’s opinion. The most common are between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ludwig Van Beethoven. In my opinion, J.S. Bach is the most astounding composer of all time in music. Johann has become an essential and an influence to all musicians. Why are these three the most common? It is simply based on opinion.. They are pure geniuses. Mozart learned from Bach, Beethoven from Mozart, Beethoven learned

The following program was chosen to provide a wide variety of trumpet literature ranging from major masterworks as well as transcriptions that translate well to the trumpet. A historical timeline was also considered when selecting the following pieces. One of the objectives of this program was to display a linear progression starting with the Baroque era that show how art music evolve up until the 21th century. It also displays how the physical and musical demand change for the trumpet over a long

The following program was chosen to provide a wide variety of trumpet literature ranging from major masterworks as well as transcriptions that translate well to the trumpet. A historical time line was also considered when selecting the following pieces. One of the objectives of this program was to display a linear progression starting with the Baroque era that show how art music evolve up until the 21th century. It also displays how the physical and musical demand change for the trumpet over a long

their connection to music. In 1692 Bach began his education enrolling at Lateinschule, Eisenach which was a Latin school. The institution offered a General rather than a musical education. It is also believed that Bach sung soprano in the choir of St. Georg. Although here is not much information on Bach’s early and initial musical education due to being born into a very musically cultured family it is thought that he was initially taught music by family members. It is probable that his father who played

style is what enlarged our size, range and instrumental complexity of the music. Common composers of the Baroque style are Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Denis Gaultier, Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jan Dismas Zelenka, and Johann Pachelbel. Antonio Vivaldi composed aforementioned “The

Most performers in his time lacked the facility to perform Bach’s vocal works. Even if they did, Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, wrote pieces that were much simpler, popular and accessible to the average performers (Wolff, Bach: Essays on his Life and Music 374-375). This problem was amplified by Bach’s lack of effort to change this situation. Bach wrote in a

the same year, their first child, Catharina Dorothea, was born, and Maria Barbara 's elder, unmarried sister joined them. She remained to help run the household until her death in 1729. Three sons were also born in Weimar: Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Gottfried Bernhard. Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara had three more children who however did not live to their first birthday, including twins born in 1713. Bach 's time in Weimar was the start of a sustained period of composing

German culture has spanned throughout the entire German-speaking world. From its roots, culture in Germany has been molded by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. Historically Deutschland has been called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (the country of poets and thinkers) (Wasser, 2006). Germany is in the middle of Europe, not only geographically, but also in terms of politics and economics. The country is Europe's second most populated after Russia, with