Kim Patrick Clow <[log in to unmask]> speculates: >Obviously Telemann wanted a church position. He could had been appointed >to any secular court that he wanted, he was that popular. Like Bach, he >really wanted to express himself musically in a church setting. They both >were very religious men. Telemann was a very respected musician of his time, much more well known than J.S.Bach for example, and Telamann was at an early stage offered a lot of employments after a successful performance of a cantata of his hand in Leipzig 1701. Telemann worked as Kapellmeister at several German courts before he became "Directores Musicus" in Frankfurt 1712(?). However he appreciated that security of employment a city could offer more than high status, and therefore he choosed Hamburg (around 1720) where he composed music for the 5 largest churches in the city. >Telemann had the same type of position in Hamburg as the position was >in Leipzig: a civic post for teaching music to students and basically >overseeing musical performances in the city churches. And like J.S.Bach he employed others to do the duties he didn't concern suitable for a true artist, like latin teaching. Wilhelm Menkes Biography "Georg Philipp Telemann" (1987) sheds clear light on the art of his employments and his opinions thereabout. I don't know of any English translation, but perhaps others will know. Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]