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**Victoria**

 * Georg Telemann**

**6.) While studying at Leipzig Georg had little intention of going back to Music**
===**7.)Telemann was sent away to Zellerfeld in 1694; at the age of 20, the composer resolved to study law in Leipzig, but a chance meeting in Halle with 16-year-old Georg Friedrich Handel appears to have drawn him back to music. **=== ===** 8.) Telemann began writing cantatas for a church in Leipzig and quickly became a local celebrity **=== ===** 9.)In 1702, he was named director of the [|Leipzig Opera] , and over the next three years he wrote four operas specifically for this company. **=== ===**10.) Georg Telemann was one of the prolific composers in history **=== ===**11.) Telemann never left Germany, except for a brief journey to France from 1737–1738. **=== ===**12.) Telemann was considered the most important German composer of his day and his reputation outlasted him for some time. **===