Telemann, Georg Michael
(1748–1831)
GEORG MICHAEL TELEMANNTELEMANN, GEORG MICHAELGEORG MICHAEL TELEMANN [* 1748-† 1831] As did his grandfather and teacher Georg Philipp TELEMANN, Georg Michael Telemann wrote on figured bass, in a practical treatise called Unterricht im Generalbaß-Spielen (1773). Less learned and directed more towards beginners than were the classic treatises of C. P. E. BACH and MARPURG, this brief work was confined to the essentials of the practice and purported to represent a modernization of perspective, as…