{"id":19898,"date":"2019-10-29T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2019-10-29T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T13:22:12","slug":"musical-cities-hamburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=19898","title":{"rendered":"Musical Cities: Hamburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I mentioned yesterday, this week will ride on borrowed material. Here<\/a> is the source article about musical cities, and of course my first choice was my former hometown of Hamburg, Germany. Musical selections are my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographs are of the Elbphilharmonie, a controversial concert hall that opened a few years back, and surrounding neighborhoods. (<\/strong>For reviews of the hall <\/strong>go here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a><\/strong>. I have also written about it some time back here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As for music and musicians associated with Hamburg, there are quite a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georg Friedrich Telemann<\/strong> lived and composed in Hamburg in the 1700s and was musical director of the city’s churches, followed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach<\/strong>, his godson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is Telemann’s music for the admirals of this port city:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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