Georg Philipp Telemann was an old dog who seemed to have no problems learning new tricks, a point made very clearly with Ludger Rémy and Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein's Georg Philipp Telemann: Komm Geist des Herrn -- Late Cantatas on CPO. These three church cantatas, Komm, Geist des Herrn, TWV 1:999, Kaum wag ich es, TWV 1:992, and Er kam, lobsingt ihm TWV 1:462 were composed in 1759 and 1762, years in which Telemann was 78 and 81 years of age, respectively. Baroque was a done deal and Classicism was all the rage, ...
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Georg Philipp Telemann was an old dog who seemed to have no problems learning new tricks, a point made very clearly with Ludger Rémy and Telemannisches Collegium Michaelstein's Georg Philipp Telemann: Komm Geist des Herrn -- Late Cantatas on CPO. These three church cantatas, Komm, Geist des Herrn, TWV 1:999, Kaum wag ich es, TWV 1:992, and Er kam, lobsingt ihm TWV 1:462 were composed in 1759 and 1762, years in which Telemann was 78 and 81 years of age, respectively. Baroque was a done deal and Classicism was all the rage, although musicians in Europe were not thinking of it in those terms specifically, as such temporal designations were arrived at retrospectively. Composers around 1760 just knew that things were different, and that the old practice, heavy with polyphony and piety, simply did not work anymore. Telemann did not just adapt to the new order of things; he was on the cutting edge of them and had even anticipated some of these developments in his works from the 1730s.Komm, Geist des Herrn,...
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