Free Telemann sheet music
8 Telemann scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryGeorg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
German composer of the late Baroque, and the most prolific in recorded history: more surviving works than Bach and Handel put together, well past three thousand of them. Almost entirely self-taught, and taught against his mother's wishes, who confiscated his instruments and sent him away to school. Hamburg made him its music director for forty-six years, and when Leipzig wanted a cantor they offered the job to him first; he turned it down, and it went to their second choice, Bach. He was godfather to Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel.
Start with these
The easiest Telemann on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Telemann rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.