Georg Phillip Telemann invented neither the telephone nor the telenovela, but was nevertheless a thoroughly capable creator. Over 3600 works can be traced back to the baroque composer. If you count his active period from 1691 to his last composition in 1767, i.e. 76 years, that's about 47 works a year, almost one work a week. 

Telemann always grew up sheltered and well educated in Magdeburg. He attended school, spoke fluent English as well as Italian and thus belonged to the educated middle classes. He began composing at the age of 10, but often secretly and on borrowed instruments. His mother did not appreciate his passion, as she did not consider the profession of musician to be good enough (as she did not consider the profession of musician to be befitting of his status). To combat his passion, she even went so far as to take away all his instruments in 1693 and send him to another school. There too, however, he found opportunities to occupy himself with music. Nevertheless, in 1701, for his mother's sake, he enrolled to study law in Leipzig. There, one year after beginning his studies, he founded an amateur orchestra, which Johann Sebastian Bach himself continued to lead for almost 30 years.
When Telemann received an offer from Sorau (today: Poland), he moved away from Leipzig and worked there as Kapellmeister.
In 1712, Telemann became municipal music director in Frankfurt am Main. He stayed there for a few years, then moved to Hamburg and finally to Paris. Through his stay there, his fame grew both internationally and in Germany itself. When he returned to Germany, he continued to compose until his increasing poor eyesight and other ailments prevented him from doing so. He died in Hamburg in 1767, at the age of 86. 

The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra performed a work by Telemann for the last time on 01.09.2021.