Who is Pachelbel?

It is likely that more people are familiar with a piece of music called Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D than to know the full name or anything from the history of composer Johann Pachelbel. Written in 1680, it is still a very popular piece at weddings and was the subject of a wide range of interpretations, not to mention the parodies, all of which maintain the name of the composer of the seventeenth century in the 21st century. But he had to leave for economic problems and became a scholarship student at the Poetic Gymnasium. In his extracurricular studies he was exhibited by Italian Baroque music, which was also very popular in Vienna, where he moved in 1673 when his education happened. His time in Vienna expanded his knowledge of church music from the Lutheran tradition, in which he was brought up to include the knowledge of Catholic composers from Italy and southern Germany and their styles.

Pachelbel became in 1677 in eIsenach in Eisenach, but with the death of his patron's brother, a year later, lost his position because the family focused on sadness rather than art. However, they stayed in good conditions and Pachelbel went to Erfurt to become an organist in the Lutheran Preacher church. In his twelve -year term, his reputation was established as one of the premiere composers of his day. During this time he also married, became a widow and married again.

Pachelbel spent two years in Stuttgart as a musician and organist, and - submitted by a French invasion - then took a position in Goth, where he stayed for two years, from 1692 to 1694.Ble, that he met Johann Sebastian Bach at that time. When the organist in Saint Sebald in Nuremberg died in 1695 in 1695, Pachelbel was invited to replace and release him from Gothy to do so. Died in Nuremberg in 1706.

During his life, Pachelbel was most famous as an organ composer and wrote iníce than 200 and many vocal works. That was during the 70s, when his work, Canon in D Major experienced a huge revival of popularity that has continued to this day. Dozens of recordings are still available, both in traditional style and countless modifications and arrangements.