In 1701, the 20-year-old Telemann was on his way to Leipzig to study in despair. Family pressure forced him to give up his love for music. However, a chance encounter with an Orpheus made Eurydice, who was in hell, drink the poison of music... As the third volume of the RHUMA series Classical Music, this article tells the lifelong friendship between two Baroque composers in the history of Western music: Handel and Telemann from a historical perspective. They met when they were young, they were polar opposites when they were young, they supported each other in middle age, and until their old age, they sent letters to each other, using their shared love for music and gardening to alleviate the pain caused by the times and years. Until the end, the witnesses of their friendship: those flowers, like their lives and music, disappeared into the dust of history just like the baroque era that flourished and declined. "When passing through Halle, I almost succumbed to the poison of music again, because there I met Mr. Georg Friedrich Handel..." + - Georg Philippe Telemann, autobiography in 1740. After Telemann's death, this composer who was famous in Europe during his lifetime was gradually forgotten by people and even spurned by scholars. Handel, who had never expected such a situation, waited anxiously in the afterlife, hoping that the two lifelong friends would finally meet in heaven...
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