Emma und Eginhard
Music by Georg Philipp Telemann
Emma und Eginhard, oder Die Last-tragende Liebe, TWV 21:25, is a German Singspiel in three acts by Georg Philipp Telemann performed at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg in 1728. The librettist was Christoph Gottlieb Wend. The opera's overture is also played as a violin concerto in A minor.
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About the Composer
Georg Philipp Telemann (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfiːlɪp ˈteːləman]; 24 March [O.S. 14 March] 1681 – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time, and he was compared favourably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg,…
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Other Operas by Georg Philipp Telemann
- Germanicus (1704)
- Der neumodische Liebhaber Damon (1719)
- Der geduldige Socrates (1721)
- Flavius Bertaridus (1729)
- Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (1761)