Telemann played a key role in shaping musical professionalism, encouraging public performance and cultivated listening. The Double Concerto for two horns and orchestra in E-flat major belongs to the third collection of Telemann’s Tafelmusik ( Musique de Table ), published in 1733—one of the most ambitious and representative instrumental publications of the Baroque era. Far from being conceived as mere background music, Tafelmusik was intended for attentive listening within cultivated social circles, a purpose reflected in the compositional care, formal clarity, and stylistic variety of its contents. This concerto is of particular interest from an organological perspective. Telemann designates the two solo instruments as tromba selvatica , a term that has long puzzled musicologists. It likely does not refer to the trumpet in the strict sense, but rather to a high-pitched natural brass instrument related to the early horn, lacking valves and possessing limited chromatic flexibi...
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