When Georg Philipp Telemann died in 1767, having enjoyed for decades an enviable reputation throughout Europe, he was the most famous German composer of his generation. Here, Payne revisits Telemann and the French style. Telemann probably became properly acquainted with French music while a school pupil at the Hildesheim Gymnasium and certainly went to hear the French-style court orchestra at Hanover. Telemann's self-confessed admiration for the works of others opens up an intriguing possibility: namely, that he borrowed material from his models and, more to the point, that any resulting correspondences, where they are sufficiently tangible, may be identified. All alleged borrowings are, however, to varying degrees subjective; and all were discovered more or less by accident, not as the result of a systematic trawl through every available early French-style print, so others may still await the musical archaeologist.