Telemann Fans: New Aria Discovered!

February 19, 2018 by Chris Gallant 1 Comment

RISM has reported¹ that a new aria from an opera by Georg Philipp Telemann has been found in Braunschweig, Germany.  The aria, “Mein Herz is viel zu schwach, Euch zu verlassen” [My heart is far too weak to leave you], is believed to be from the opera Die königliche Schäferin Margenis [The Royal Shepherdess Margenis].

The manuscript is written in German organ tablature notation, but a modern transcription has been published in the German-language music journal Concerto.²

You can read more about the discovery here.

A previously unknown set of fantasias for viola da gamba by Telemann was found in 2015.  Recordings of that set of fantasias have since been released.

References

1. “Mein Herz ist viel zu schwach” – A Newly Discovered Aria by Georg Philipp Telemann. RISM.info, Feb. 19, 2018. http://www.rism.info/en/home/newsdetails/article/2/mein-herz-ist-viel-zu-schwach-a-newly-discovered-aria-by-georg-philipp-telemann.html.
2. Lauterwasser, Helmut, “’Mein Herz ist viel zu schwach, Euch zu verlassen’ Eine neu entdeckte Arie von Georg Philipp Telemann,” [“My heart is far too weak to leave you” A Newly discovered aria by Georg Philipp Telemann], CONCERTO – Das Magazin für Alte Musik No 277 (January/February 2018), pp 22-25.

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Image attribution:  Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), [Public domain] hand-colored aquatint by Valentin Daniel Preisler, after a lost painting by Louis Michael Schneider, 1750.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Telemann.jpg.