Georg Philipp Telemann
Videos
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by hi
Hand-coloured aquatint of Telemann by Valentin Daniel Preisler (1750), after a lost painting by Louis Michael Schneider
Magdeburg, Telemann's birthplace, in the early 18th century. Some 50 years before Telemann's birth the city was sacked and had to be rebuilt.
Telemann c. 1745, engraving by Georg Lichtensteger
Johann Adolf Scheibe
Videos
Johann Adolph Scheibe was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music. Though much of his theoretical work survives, most of his compositions are lost, though the extant ones
Johann Adolph Scheibe.