Nils Mönkemeyer & Reinhard Goebel (7. Sinfoniekonzert & Barockfest Darmstadt) by Telemann, Händel, Friedemann Bach, Stamitz, Carl, Minn (2023/2023), Surmast Direttur Reinhard Goebel, Staatstheater, Darmstadt, Germany

Nowadays, musicians would probably be reluctant to play for a feast or serious composers would want to explicitly call their creations “table music”, as they catapulted themselves equally into the classic feel-good segment between yard goods, kitsch and commerce. However, commerce and sales promotion was definitely Georg Philipp Telemann's goal when he published his first collection of instrumental works in Hamburg in 1733 under the title "Musique de table". She only had something to do with food insofar as creations from it could certainly be played at a feast in a correspondingly high-born setting. Rather, it was about the instructions for a real musical banquet, from the chef himself.