Today, Telemann languishes in the shadow of his greatest contemporaries, Bach and Handel, though he did not rank beneath them during his lifetime. We are forever reminded of his absurd fertility — he ...

Lucie Skeaping looks at the operas of Telemann. It's said he composed more than 50 works for the stage, although only 35 of them appear in his catalogue. Most of them were premiered in either Leipzig ...

Georg Philipp Telemann was a canny operator. He published a magazine called The Faithful Music Master – the first ever music journal in Germany – and kept subscribers hooked by drip-feeding them ...

Georg Philipp Telemann’s overlooked intermezzo “Pimpinone” is being presented by the Boston Early Music Festival this weekend. By Oussama Zahr In the standard repertoire, comic opera more or less ...

The 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death has not been widely marked, but this scintillating disc should reassert his claim to be one of the most inventive composers of the 18th century. The ...