Baroque Notes: Flowers and Duets

Baroque Notes: Flowers and Duets

巴洛克手记:花与二重奏

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In 1701, 20-year-old Telemann walked disheartened on his way to study in Leipzig. Family pressure forced him to give up his love of music.However, a chance encounter with an Orpheus made this Eurydice in hell drink the poison of music... As the third volume of the RHUMA Series Classical Music, this article is told from a historical perspective Two baroque composers in the history of western music: Handel and Telemann maintained a lifelong friendship.Encounter in youth, divergence in youth, mutual support in middle age, until swan geese pass on letters in old age, use their shared love of music and gardening to alleviate the pain brought by the times and years.Until the end, the testimony of their friendship: those flowers, just like their life and music, disappeared in the dust of history like the baroque era in its prosperity and decline. "I almost succumbed to the musical poison//drug again on the way to Halle, where I met Mr. Georg Friedrich Handel..." -Georg Philip Taylor Mann, after the death of his autobiography Telemann in 1740, this composer who was famous in Europe during his lifetime was gradually forgotten by people and even spurned by scholars.Unexpectedly, Handel waited anxiously in the afterlife, hoping that the two lifelong friends would finally meet in heaven...

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