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Complete Opus 2 Duo Sonatas +. Contributors: Telemann. Recorder Duets (AA). Publisher's category: Recorder Duets.

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN

Telemanns so-called Op. 2 duos were originally published by the composer himself in Hamburg in 1727. The full title reads as follows:

Sonates sans Basse ~ deux Flutes traverses ou c~ deux violons ou c~i deux flutes a bec dedi~es a Messieurs George Behrrnann et Pierre .Diteric Toennies,
The collection was subsequently published conventionally by established publishers: Roger and Le Cene in Amsterdam (1731), Le Clerc in Paris (1736/7) and John Walsh in London (1746). It was the egregious Mr. Walsh who was responsible for the Opera Seconda which has somehow stuck, largely because when these duets were first published for recorders, the editors concerned used the surviving Walsh edition.

The seventh duet in this edition comes from another of Telemanns own publishing ventures, Dergetreue Music-Mci ster, which was published in installments in I 728-9. Recorder players will be familiar with the four famous solo recorder sonatas in that collection Telemann was highly practical, and for several of the pieces in the collection he provides alternative clefs for different instruments, in the present case for flutes, recorders and violas da gamba.

In this edition the six sonatas from 1727 have been transposed up a minor third in the way that is indicated by the alternative clefs in Der getreue Music-Mci ster, The edition follows the original print of 1727 in matters of phrasing and articulation.

Credit: Editor,Bernard Thomas

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