famous German composer. Being a dynamic personality, he actively gave concerts, gathered orchestras and led them, diligently took care of publishing his works.
Telemann was a self-taught musician, but he played several instruments as a child and wrote his first opera at the age of 12. His more serious musical activity began in Leipzig. He was there in 1701. founded the student musical society "Collegium Musicum", which twenty years later played an important role in the activities of JS Bach. GF Telemann was associated with the Leipzig Opera House, which was also largely student-driven. He served as court musician in Eisenach and as church musician in Frankfurt am Main. But In 1721, Telemann received his most important post, which he held for more than 40 years, in Hamburg, the very center of German musical life. he took over the management of the opera house and supplied Frankfurt with cantatas and orchestral music for several estates, a position later taken over by K. F. E. Bach.
G. F. Telemann composed at least 1500 church cantatas and about 1000 orchestral suites, more than 40 operas and passions and a lot of chamber music for ensembles of various composition. G. F. Telemann was disparagingly called a graphomaniac, and his work is considered to be mass-oriented consumer music, unlike the enduring works of J. S. Bach. However, in this case, G. F. Teleman's spirit of openness to innovation was overlooked, which led to the fact that he was one of the most daring composers of his time - he imitated all the styles of the time, but remained original while combining them. He kept pace with the rapidly changing 18th century. musical taste, and even in the 7th decade, in his old age, he wrote as fashionable as the younger generation of that time. The free, imaginative creative style of G. F. Telemann strongly influenced the further development of German opera. Telemann's talents were especially evident in the creation of comic scenes (the comic opera "Pimpinone", 1725). His oratorios Dienos dalys (1755), Judgment Day (1762) and dramatic solo cantata Ino (1765) became examples for later generations. Three cycles of ensemble suites and sonatas "Užstalės muzika" (1733), which were known throughout Europe, occupy an essential place in his chamber music. trip to Paris created by "Paris Quartets".
