Interesting Facts

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

1681-1701
Magdeburg, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Hildesheim

1701-1712
Leipzig, Sorau (Żary), Pleß (Pszczyna), Eisenach

1712-1721
Frankfurt am Main

1721-1739
Hamburg, Paris

1740-1767
Hamburg

Baptism Registration in Telemann's Birthplace Magdeburg.

1681

  • Birth on March 14 as the son of Heinrich Telemann
  • Visited the City School, lessons with the Magdeburg music director Benedictus Christiani
  • Went to Magdeburg cathedral school, introduction to German literature by rector Christian Müller
  • First compositions, i.a. the opera Sigismundus (around 1693)

1694

  • School in Zellerfeld
  • Compositions for the church
  • Promotion by superintendent Caspar Calvör

1697

  • Studies at the Andreanum in Hildesheim
  • Compositions for plays at the school as well as for educational books of the director Johann Christoph Losius
  • Church music
  • Travels to Hannover and Braunschweig, where Telemann gets to know French and Italian music as well as the opera


1701

  • Exam in Magdeburg



Former Cathedral School in Magdeburg. (c) Telemann-Zentrum Magdeburg