Telemann structured his regular church music into cycles, in which the work in question takes shape over the course of the church year as a series of compositions for each Sunday and feast day.
An interdisciplinary academic conference, held in autumn 2023 at the Gleimhaus in Halberstadt, was dedicated to one of these series of works: the Stolbergischer Jahrgang of 1736/37. The proceedings of this conference are now presented in this volume. The cycle and its contexts were examined from historical, musicological, literary and theological perspectives. The new research is supplemented by important, earlier contributions on the Stolbergischer Jahrgang and on musical life in Stolberg-Roßla. The result is a clearly defined picture of this work, which is special in many respects. Telemann composed the ‘Jahrgang’ for Count Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla, under whose patronage the small residence of Roßla developed into an outstanding centre of 18th-century Telemann studies – hitherto scarcely known in Telemann research – culminating in the ‘Stolbergischer Jahrgang’.
