Johann Pachelbel
Composer
1653 – 1706
Who was Johann Pachelbel?
Johann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era.
Pachelbel's music enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime; he had many pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central Germany. Today, Pachelbel is best known for the Canon in D, as well as the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.
Pachelbel's music was influenced by southern German composers, such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Kaspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers, and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. He preferred a lucid, uncomplicated contrapuntal style that emphasized melodic and harmonic clarity.
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- Born
- 1653
Nuremberg - Also known as
- Pachebel
- Pachabel
- J. Pachelbel
- Pachelbel
- Johan Pachelbel
- Johann Christoph Pachelbel
- 파헬벨
- Pachelbel, Johann
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Altdorf
- Lived in
- Bavaria
- Died
- Mar 3, 1706
Nuremberg - Resting place
- St. Rochus Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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