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 Concertos of a trio sonata for two violas and continuo, although the cello has a decorated version of the continuo bass line. In the last movement, the spirit of the gigue underlies everything, as it did in the finale of the fifth concerto. Because King Frederick William I of Prussia was not a significant patron of the arts, Christian Ludwig seems to have lacked the musicians in his Berlin ensemble to perform the concertos. The full score was left unused in the Margrave's library until his death in 1734, when it was sold for 24 groschen (as of 2014, about US$24)