On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, David W. Fenton <[email protected]>wrote:
>>You say it was a copyist's score -- what is the situation with these >>sources and Telemann's autographs? Very few of Telemann's instrumental works (and I believe that none of the orchestral suites) survive in autograph form; Telemann specialist Stephen Zohn has no ideas on why this happened exactly. Dating of some the Darmstadt scores/parts indicate they were copied in Leipzig in the early 1700s (they were likely brought to Darmstadt via Johann Endler who was in Leipzig and participated in the Collegium Musicum which definitely was performed Telemann's suites. Endler was at St. Thomas Church when Christoph Graupner auditioned there in 1722, and eventually hired Endler, who then took the Collegium Musicium performance materials to Darmstadt. This A minor score survives in Darmstadt, and could be connected to Telemann's brother-in-law Michael Boehm, who was a flute/recorder/oboe player. Boehm fled Darmstadt when the lack of regular salary was too much to bear. Ernst Ludwig loved to hunt and have lavish feasts, but apparently paying his musicians on a regular basis was just too much of chore ;) An arrest warrant for Boehem was issued by the Landgrave, including charges of theft of musical scores. Boehm gave a disposition where he claimed he took only t"he Telemann pieces" that were his personal property. Boehm also mentioned there was a contest between himself and Johann Endler to see who could collect the most Telemann scores. Currently in Darmstadt there are about 100 Telemann pieces copied in Endler's hand, so it's a safe bet to think Boehm took at least 100 pieces when he fled- obviously it was enough to warrant the attention of the Landgrave. None Boehm's Telemann manuscripts have ever surfaced, so I think they will never turn up. David, your point about the Telemann scores being somewhat of a mess is true. Some of cantatas are even worse, if you can believe that! Thanks, Kim _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
