Selig sind die Toten
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Selig sind die Toten is the incipit of a verse from the Bible frequently used in funeral music of German-speaking composers.
German grave cross with the text Selig im Herrn ("Blessed in the Lord")
Georg Philipp Telemann
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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