Composer
Johann Pachelbel
German composer, organist and teacher
1653–1706
591 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1653
- Died
- 1706
- Birthplace
- Nuremberg
- Place of death
- Nuremberg
- Citizenship / historical state
- Germany
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Baroque
Biography
Pachelbel wrote a large body of organ and keyboard music and one canon, and the canon has entirely swamped the rest.
The Canon in D exists in more arrangements than possibly any other piece in this catalogue — string quartet, solo piano, guitar, wedding ensembles of every configuration, and every grade from beginner to concert. It was written for three violins and continuo, and everything else is an arrangement. Check what you are getting.
The organ music is genuinely worth knowing and largely ignored: the chorale preludes are accessible to an organist of moderate ability and are good introductions to a style that Bach later took much further. All of it is out of copyright.
Life and musical career
- Education
- University of Altdorf
- Teachers
- Heinrich Schwemmer; Georg Caspar Wecker
- Instruments played
- organ
- Genres
- fugue; canon; chaconne; classical music
- Movements
- Baroque music
- Notable works
- Canon and Gigue in D
- Birth name
- Johann Pachelbel
- Languages used
- German
- VIAF ID
- 24795715
- ISNI
- 0000000108560529
- GND ID
- 119456613
- Library of Congress ID
- n79077219
- MusicBrainz ID
- 2251b277-2dfb-4cf1-83f3-27e29f902440
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Organ, Piano, Guitar, Voice, violin
- Genres represented
- Classical, Pop, Christmas, Jazz, Rock
- Source entries with composition dates
- 3
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Sheet music catalogue page 13 of 13
Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. The biography above is our own. Authority record: VIAF 24795715.