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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Taylor, Nicholas E

Titel

The published church cantatas of Georg Philipp Telemann

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At a time when few German composers were publishing church music, Georg Philipp Telemann released five complete annual cycles of church cantatas: the Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst (Hamburg, 1725-26), the Auszug derjenigen musicalischen . . . Arien (Hamburg, 1727), the Fortsetzung des harmonischen Gottesdienstes (Hamburg 1731–32), the Musicalisches Lob Gottes (Nuremberg, 1742–44), and the so-called Engel-Jahrgang (Hermsdorf, 1748). These collections were disseminated widely in their original printed versions and in manuscript copies throughout northern Europe and made the modern, Neumeister-type cantata—with operatic da capo arias and recitatives—available to a large and diverse audience. This dissertation considers the commercial context, marketing, dissemination, and performance history of these five published cantata collections. Chapter 1 shows that Telemann's published cycles were the first and most popular works to offer the newest styles of church music for every Sunday and feast day of the liturgical calendar. Chapters 2–5 consider each collection individually and detail the creative ways in which the composer marketed the works for different types of musicians, including amateurs interested in performing sacred music at home, individuals at churches with modest musical resources, and professional music directors at wealthy institutions. Surviving prints and manuscript copies of Telemann's cantatas reveal the individuals who are known to have performed Telemann's church music and show the various changes musicians made to these works according to the availability of certain voice types, instruments, and other practical concerns. These sources also demonstrate the vast and long-lasting appeal of Telemann's music in German-speaking lands and Scandinavia throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.