For centuries, Orpheus has fascinated composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Philip Glass. But of those who have turned the mythological musician’s underworld-charming lyre tunes to opera, Georg ...

A listener recently contacted me about how moved he was listening to music by Georg Philipp Telemann on Sunday Baroque. He expressed wonder at the power of music, and about our fundamental human need ...

Flutist Dinéa Rose performs Georg Telemann's "Fantasia." Watch flutist Dinéa Rose perform Georg Telemann's "Fantasia." Dinéa is the March 2025 WMHT-FM Classical Student Musician of the Month. She was ...

Telemann was probably the most prolific composer in musical history. He wrote almost as much as Bach and Handel put together (and each of them wrote a perplexing amount) including 600 French overtures ...

On this Labor Day holiday weekend, today's Beautiful Music is by one of the hardest-working musicians of the baroque era: Georg Philipp Telemann. In 1998, the Guinness Book of World Records named ...

The Lyra Baroque Orchestra returns to Rochester for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7, highlighting the music of Georg Telemann. The orchestra, led by harpsichordist Jacques Ogg, will perform Telemann's ...

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Georg Philipp Telemann was one of history’s most prolific composers. He wrote some 3,000 works in virtually every existing genre, and at his death, in 1767, he was widely considered the leading ...

Can an obscure opera from 1725 with a cast of just two, a bare-bones plot bordering on the absurd and a production using early instruments and historic performance techniques reach a contemporary ...

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