Concerto a 3 ex F a Cornu, Flauto con Cembalo et Fagotto
Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg on 14 March 1681 and died in Hamburg on 25 June 1767. Largely self-taught, he served as Kapellmeister and music director in Sorau, Eisenach and Frankfurt am Main before taking up the post of Kantor at Hamburg’s Johanneum in 1721, together with the musical directorship of the city’s five principal churches, a position he held until his death. With an output of well over 3,000 works – catalogued in the Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis (TWV) – he is considered one of the most prolific composers in the history of music. Telemann was a close friend of Johann Sebastian Bach and godfather to Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Stylistically, his so-called “mixed taste” combined German, French, Italian and Polish elements, and his rich body of chamber music – including numerous works for recorder and other wind instruments – did much to spread the genre throughout the eighteenth century.
This is the original title of the manuscript copy. In addition to the two solo parts, a bassoon joins the harpsichord in the basso continuo. The individual parts, however, note something different: there the bass part is labelled “Violoncello”, and above the horn part “Viola” is additionally given in brackets.
