This edition is designed to present researchers and performers with a representative selection of the works of Georg Philipp Telemann in reliable scholarly editions. It will contain characteristic works from each genre of the composer’s voluminous œuvre, including chamber music, instrumental concertos, orchestral suites, pieces for keyboard instruments, church cantatas, Passion settings, motets, psalms, masses, sacred concertos, operas, oratorios, secular cantatas, songs and arias.
Each volume contains a preface, several facsimile reproductions from the source material and a critical report. The suitability of the edition for performance purposes is emphasized by the instrumental parts accompanying the volumes of chamber music.