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G. P. Telemann

Twelve Fantasias

Transcribed

for

Trumpet

Jay Lichtmann

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NOTES ON THIS EDITION

Boring Biographical Information

Georg Philipp Telemann was among the most famous and prolific composers of his

generation. Telemann was born in 1681 at Magdeburg and educated at the University of

Leipzig where he founded the University Collegium Musicum. In 1723 he was the city

council's preferred candidate for the position of Thomascantor, but it was Johann Sebastian

Bach who eventually obtained that position. By 1721 Telemann had established himself in

Hamburg as Cantor of the Johanneum and director of music for the five principal city

churches. He remained in Hamburg until his death in 1767, when his godson, Carl Philipp

Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, succeeded him. In his long career Telemann

wrote a tremendous amount of music, sacred and secular vocal works as well as orchestral,

chamber, and keyboard music, in a style that extends the late Baroque into the age of

Haydn.

The Fantasias

The Twelve Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann, published in 1732, have become a staple

of the solo flute repertoire. They were originally written for the transverse flute (or violin)

but have been enthusiastically embraced by recorder players, many of whom insist that

Telemann really wrote them for the recorder, and playing them on the modern flute is

blasphemous. There are several modern editions for flute available and these pieces have

been transcribed for bassoon and trombone. The current Schwann catalog indicates that

14 recordings of the fantasias are available (performed on modern & Baroque flute,

recorder and oboe) and I'll bet that almost as many are now out of print.

Explanation

In this edition I have tried to make these pieces publicly performable on the Bb trumpet.

To that end, I have had to transpose the keys down so that they will sound in the optimum

tessitura on the trumpet. I have been careful to only change keys for the complete

fantasia; I have not altered the tonality of individual movements. I have also eliminated

many of the wide interval skips that are common in these pieces by compressing these leaps

to the nearest octave. The trumpet has one of the smallest usable ranges of all the

orchestral instruments and the timbre of its tone changes drastically from register to

and high C. The oboe also has a comparatively small range, but its sound is basically the

same throughout its registers and it can execute wide intervallic leaps with great ease. The

editorial decisions I have made have definitely altered some portions of each one of these

pieces, but I have been very careful to change as few notes as possible, keeping in mind my

goal of making the Twelve Fantasias playable on the modern Bb trumpet.

Disclaimer and Abuse

Please keep in mind that this is not a scholarly, urtext or critical edition. I am not a

baroque music scholar or a Telemann expert. (As a matter of fact I am not expert in

anything except thumb wrestling.) This is a personal or "vanity" publication; I have added

my own dynamic, expression, breath, articulation, and metronome markings. These

markings are simply suggestions, a blueprint as to how one trumpeter might try to perform

these pieces. Please try to remember: YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO LIKE OR AGREE

WITH ALL OF THESE MARKINGS! If you don't like a marking cross it out and write your

own in, or better yet, get some staff paper and write out your own damn edition. I will not

refund your money. If you do happen to agree with every single editorial marking in this

edition, you probably have little or no musical imagination and should stop pursuing a

career in music immediately. Sell this book and your trumpet and get a gig in computers,

or a job selling life insurance. You will be much happier, I guarantee it. I have labored long

and hard editing these pieces, making some tough musical decisions along the way, and

even I don't like all the markings that appear in this book.

Performance

My hat is off to any trumpeter who has the guts to program one of these fantasias on a

recital. Playing an unaccompanied work is always extremely difficult, especially when the

piece is not originally written for your instrument. These pieces pose technical, endurance

and musical challenges that are not easy to overcome.

Technique : I have tried to put these pieces in playable keys, but quite often, selected

passages are technically awkward. Slow and steady practice will help, but don't let the

technical difficulties overwhelm you. Try to make music, even when a passage is technically

out of your reach. Miles Davis spent his whole career doing this.

Endurance: I have included all but two of the repeats that appear in the manuscript.

Because of obvious endurance concerns you may opt to eliminate some or all of them. Also

take extra time whenever possible, between movements or large sections in the pieces. The

time you take is never as long to the audience is you perceive it. Use silence in your

performance; give the music, yourself and the audience a chance to breathe.

Musicality : Though I have included metronome markings, please keep in mind that these

pieces should be played with great freedom. Practice diligently with a metronome until you

can play the movement in a steady, strict tempo and then throw the damn thing away.

Use your imagination, see how freely and expressively you can play, challenge yourself to

take as many liberties as you tastefully can. Add ornaments to the music, especially on

repeated sections. In this edition I have avoided writing out or adding ornaments other

than occasional trills and the plus sign (+) that Telemann uses to indicate that some type

of ornament (trill, mordent, appoggiatura, turn, etc.) is appropriate. Listen to a few

recordings of these pieces and observe how different players ornament and interpret them.

You will be shocked by the amount of liberties taken and the inventive ornamentation that

skilled instrumentalists add to these pieces.

Structure and Style

To help you gain some understanding into the form and style of these fantasias, I have

purloined this insightful passage out of the liner notes from a recording in my collection:

"Although Telemann titles the twelve flute solos 'Fantasias' and thus implies a free approach

to form, each loosely follows the basic pattern of an Italian sonata. An introduction (fast

or slow) usually leads to a movement with strongly profiled themes (often alluding to a

fugue); some pieces contain extra movements after this, but all end with a movement

alluding to the style and gesture of a dance. This plan can be somewhat embellished,

offering some quite striking changes of mood: the opening of the Fifth Fantasia alternates

between a short Presto and a Largo (marked Dolce) and the Twelfth Fantasia presents

contrasting elements throughout, closing with a fast bourrée in Polish folk style containing

alternating sections of minor and major. Fantasia number seven presents the greatest

departure from the Italian model, opening with a majestic French Overture, complete with

central fugal section and a return of the opening. This is paired with one of the two

closing movements to be cast in rondo - rather than binary - form. The Flute Fantasias

seem not only to imitate multifarious musical styles and moods (all the more remarkably

through the single-line medium) but also other instruments: a Vivaldian violin cadenza in

the First Fantasia; similarly Vivaldian cantilena in the middle of the Second Fantasia,

alluding to vocal style as much to instrumental; and the end of the Fifth Fantasia, a typical

example of Telemann's sentimental burlesque style with it's sighing cadences. Most

interesting of perhaps all are Telemann's one-voice fugues in which passages normally

assigned to two are simulated by splitting the line into two voices, one sounding on the

beat and one off (most noticeably in the First Fantasia)."

Finally

These Twelve Fantasias are solo compositions of the highest caliber, comparing favorably

with the unaccompanied works of J. S. Bach. I hope you will enjoy practicing and learning

them as much as I have. Admittedly, some movements work better on the trumpet than

others, but I wanted to include the complete set of fantasias in this edition. I couldn't

stand the thought of a title like "Seven and Three Quarters of Telemann's Twelve Flute

Fantasias Transcribed for Bb Trumpet".

Jay Lichtmann

Winter 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fantasia

Transposed Key

(written key)

Original Key Page

First Fantasia

G Major

A Major

Second Fantasia

F# minor

A minor

Third Fantasia

A minor

B minor

Fourth Fantasia

Ab Major

Bb Major

Fifth Fantasia

Bb Major

C Major

Sixth Fantasia

B minor

D minor

Seventh Fantasia

C Major

D Major

Eighth Fantasia

C minor

E minor

Ninth Fantasia

D Major

E Major

Tenth Fantasia

D minor

F# minor

Eleventh Fantasia

Eb Major

G Major

Twelfth Fantasia

E minor

G minor

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