Tafelmusik significant composers of "Tafelmusik" included Johann Schein, whose "Banchetto musicale" of 1617 acquired considerable fame, and Michael Praetorius, who wrote about the phenomenon of "Tafelmusik" in his "Syntagma musicum" of 1619. Music from Schein's collection is still performed by early music ensembles with some regularity. The "Tafelmusik" or "Musique de Table" by the Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann is perhaps his most celebrated collection of music. Composed in 1733, Telemann's "Tafelmusik" has been compared as a collection to the renowned Brandenburg concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach in clearly demonstrating the composer’s supreme skill in handling a diversity of musical genres
Brandenburg the Province of Brandenburg, again subdivided into the government regions of Frankfurt and Potsdam. In 1881, the City of Berlin was separated from the Province of Brandenburg. However, industrial towns ringing Berlin lay within Brandenburg, and the growth of the region's industrial economy brought an increase in the population of the province. The Province of Brandenburg had an area of and a population of 2.6 million (1925). After World War II, the Neumark, the part of Brandenburg east of the Oder–Neisse line, was transferred to Poland; and its native German population expelled. The remainder of the province became a state