For the first time, examples of church music from Telemann's late creative period, which arguably is marked above all by the great concert oratorios, have been edited and are presented in the “Telemann Complete Works”, volume 61. Included are six compositions from the years 1759 to 1762 which were written for Ascension Day, the 1st day of Easter, the 1st day of Whitsuntide and Michaelmas, supplemented by the ode "Die Begnadigung", which was performed in 1762 on the 19th Sunday after Trinity as c...