Georg Michael Telemann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer and theologian
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Place of Birth: Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Georg Michael Telemann
- Georg Michael Telemann (20 April 1748 – 4 March 1831) was a German composer and theologian. Telemann was born in Plön, the son of the local pastor Andreas Telemann (1715–1755) and his wife Augusta Clara Catharina Capsius.
- After the death of his father in 1755, he moved to Hamburg, where he was taken in and raised by his then 74 year old grandfather Georg Philipp Telemann.
- In Hamburg, he attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums, and from 1770, the Akademisches Gymnasium.
- On the death of his grandfather in 1767, the 19 year old Georg Michael composed Trauer-Ode auf das betrübte Absterben meines Großvaters Herrn Georg Philipp Telemann, des Hamburgischen Musik-Chor-Direktors.
- He also filled his grandfather's post as Cantor at the Johanneum and director of music in Hamburg's churches until March 1768, when Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was appointed.
- From 1770 to 1772 he studied at the University of Kiel.
- In 1773, while still in Hamburg, he published a treatise on continuo playing, Unterricht im Generalbaß-Spielen. In 1773, Georg Michael moved to Riga, where he was appointed as music director of the city churches and cantor at Riga Cathedral.
- As part of this job, he also directed the performance of twenty-one of his grandfather's passions.
- He also taught at the cathedral school.
- In 1812, he published a collection of Chorale settings for organ entitled Sammlung alter und neuer Choral-Melodien and a year later took the position of organist at the cathedral.
- He retired in 1828 due to a deteriorating eye condition.
- He died in Riga in 1831.
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