What connects Telemann and Frankfurt am Main?
Georg Philipp Telemann and Frankfurt am Main belong together without fail. From 1712−1721 Telemann worked as a chantor and urban chief conductor in the free imperial town. Here he built up a music life flourishing and continuing to have an effect still to this day in virtually unprecedented way. As chantor of St. Barfüßer’s Church - and later St. Catherine's Church - he was responsible for the composition of cantatas for the Sundays as well as for feast days of the church year. Telemann founded the Collegium Musicum of the Frauenstein Association, with which he organized regular concerts and he started to publish. Until his death (1767) Telemann remained citizen of the city of Frankfurt, he therefore regularly still supplied compositions instead of tax payments for the city in his Hamburg time, too.