View source for 12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba (Telemann)

== Music ==
This collection consists of the following works:<ref name="telemann2017" />
# Fantasia in C minor (Adagio – Allegro – Adagio – Allegro)<ref name="Sample 1" /><ref name="Sample 2" />
# Fantasia in D major (Vivace – Andante – Vivace Presto)
# Fantasia in E minor (Largo – Presto – Vivace)
# Fantasia in F major (Vivace – Grave – Allegro)
# Fantasia in B-flat major (Allegro – Largo – Allegro)
# Fantasia in G major (Scherzando – Dolce – Spirituoso)
# Fantasia in G minor (Andante – Vivace – Allegro)
# Fantasia in A major (Allegro – Vivace – Allegro)
# Fantasia in C major (Presto – Grave – Allegro)
# Fantasia in E major (Dolce – Allegro – Dolce – Allegro Siciliana Scherzando)
# Fantasia in D minor (Allegro – Grave – Allegro)
# Fantasia in E-flat major (Andante – Allegro – Vivace)

Written at a time when the instrument was no longer fashionable, Telemann had to compose with imagination to attract buyers.{{sfn|Heinrich|2016|p=99}}<ref name="Gardner" /> A reviewer of ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'' notes: "Telemann presents a cornucopia of broken chords, unison and contrapuntal writing, passagework and even some plucking; there's also a nod to the fashion tussle of the time between the fugal and the galant style".<ref name="Gardner" />