6 Canonical Sonatas (Telemann)
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Georg Philipp Telemann
's 6 Canonical Sonatas is a set of six canonical sonatas written for two recorders or two violins.
Each sonata is written as a canon
at the unison, meaning the second player plays the same melody as the first but several bars later.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
's 6 Canonical Sonatas is a set of six canonical sonatas written for two recorders or two violins.
Each sonata is written as a canon
Canon (music)
In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration . The initial melody is called the leader , while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower...
at the unison, meaning the second player plays the same melody as the first but several bars later.