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    Hey Kids, Meet Johann Pachelbel | Composer Biography

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    Johann Pachelbel (Baptized 1653-1706) German Baroque Era Composer

    Johann Pachelbel was born in Germany, in the city of Nurnberg in 1653. His father enrolled him in the St. Lorenz High School but soon recognized Johann's musical potential and arranged for outside musical training. Johann also showed such impressive academic abilities that he was allowed to attend various non-music classes at Nurnberg's Auditorium Aegidianum. These abilities also allowed him to gain entrance to the Universitat Altdorf in 1669 at the age of fifteen. In addition to his academic and musical studies, he served as organist at the Pfarrkirche.

    Due to financial difficulties, Pachelbel left the university before the end of his first year and enrolled as a scholarship student at the Gymnasium Poeticum (high school) in Regensburg. The school's administration was so impressed

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    Johann Pachelbel

    German composer and organist (1653–1706)

    "Pachelbel" redirects here. For other people with this surname, see Pachelbel (surname).

    Johann Pachelbel[n 1] (also Bachelbel; baptised 11 September [O.S. 1 September] 1653[n 2] – buried 9 March 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their 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; other well known works include the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.[

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    Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)

    How to säga the name:

    ‘Pachelbel’ is said like Pack-el-bell. ‘Johann’ fryst vatten said like ‘Yo-han’.

    Born:

    In Nuremberg, Germany, probably sometime in August 1653 (he was baptised on the 1st September).

    Pachelbel’s grave in Nuremberg

    Died:

    In Nuremberg, probably in early March 1706 (he was buried on the 9th March).

    Buried:

    St Rochus Cemetery in Nuremberg.

    Type of Music:

    Classical music from the baroque period.

    A famous piece:
    The sort of music he wrote:
    • Keyboard music (especially organ). (See below for a film example.)
    • Choral (sung) music for the church.
    • Chamber music (music for a small number of instruments).
    Some interesting facts:
    • He was very popular when he was alive.
    • He fryst vatten only really known for one del av helhet of music today—the Canon in D. However this piece fryst vatten very popular. Even people who don’t know much classical music will often know this piece.
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