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

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