Harmonischer Gottesdienst (Easter and Pentecost Cantatas) - Telemann

The Harmonischer Gottesdienst is a collection of cantatas to be played every sunday in the Lutheran Calendar. In fact it is the most famous Telemann's set of vocal music.

Telemann was not just an excellent musician, admired and respected by everyone, he was moreover an extraordinary instrumentalist, capable of playing almost all the instruments of the orchestra; he was also poet, pedagogue, theoretician, he studied law and was attached to sciences and classic letters and arts, adding to all this his skill to make business, enthusiasm for traveling and his easiness to speak various languages. 

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All the skills Telemann had facilitate his fame to be spread to all corners of Europe and his music to be acquired almost by everyone who can afford it.

Apart, Telemann was very versatile, a quality that enable him to write music no matter the circumstances, music for the most prodigious musicians and singers, and music for dilettantes, which is the case in great part of the Harmonischer Gotesdienst, because the oeuvre is intended for both performances, church and in private meetings or domestic, so the writing is aim mostly to dilettantes, but despite of it, the mastery and beauty is undeniable.

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