Georg Philipp Telemann could write a trio sonata in the time that it would take the average person to read an article in a magazine, and with perhaps half the effort. He always took the bassline first, then added the top line or solo, and finally added all the obbligato stuff in between, and -- presto! -- Telemann was done. Telemann was also enormously prolific in the production of trio sonatas; for example, the TWV number for the last work on Brilliant Classics' two-disc set, Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Violin, Flute and ...
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Georg Philipp Telemann could write a trio sonata in the time that it would take the average person to read an article in a magazine, and with perhaps half the effort. He always took the bassline first, then added the top line or solo, and finally added all the obbligato stuff in between, and -- presto! -- Telemann was done. Telemann was also enormously prolific in the production of trio sonatas; for example, the TWV number for the last work on Brilliant Classics' two-disc set, Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Violin, Flute and Basso Continuo and for Oboe, Recorder & Basso Continuo (complete), "TWV 42:F15," means that it is Telemann's trio sonata No. 15 in the key of F major; he wrote 21 sonatas in that key alone. Even taking that into consideration, Telemann was not a cookie cutter Baroque composer of trio sonatas; they are quite variable in style and sound and demonstrate a questing mind at work. Telemann at the very least did not seek to bore an audience with his trio sonatas just because he could produce...
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