Winfried Michel

The high esteem in which Telemann held this cycle is evidenced by a printing privilege he sought in Paris in 1737, '... to engrave in copper 6 sonatas consisting entirely of melodic canons'.

Composed and edited by Winfried Michel

First edition from the original

Sonata VII: C major, Sonata VIII: G minor, Sonata IX: F minor.

Sonata X: B minor, Sonata XI: G minor, Sonata XII: G major.

The suites 'ennobled' by J.S.Bach (he copied them for his own use) combine the French form with Italian melodicism and surprising harmonic moments.

Suites 5 and 6 are intended for the 'flûte du quatre' (recorder in b). Here set a whole tone higher for the soprano recorder and also playable on the tenor recorder.

Edited from the sources

Edited from the sources.

Edited from the sources.

Edited from the sources.