Georg Philipp Telemann, the son of a clergyman, was
self-taught in music and became the most prolific composer of his time.
As a child he had a rare gift for music, but it was taken for granted
that he would follow his father and turn to the church for his
livelihood. At that time the musical profession was still held by many
scholars and citizens to be inferior and disreputable.
Despite his mother’s efforts to dissuade him, popular legend has it
that she even confiscated his music and instruments, this persecution
only led to a secret rebellion as he describes in his first
autobiography of 1718: “My fire burned far too brightly, and lighted my
way into the path of innocent disobedience, so that I spent many a night
with pen in hand because I was forbidden it by day, and passed many an
hour in lonely places with borrowed instruments.
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