Johann Pachelbel

Johann Pachelbel

Johann Pachelbel (also Bachelbel; baptised 11 September [O.S. 1 September] 1653 – 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.He was influenced by southern German composers, such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Caspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers, and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Pachelbel has received more than 1,596,808 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Johann Pachelbel is the 72nd most popular composer (down from 62nd in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Germany (down from 141st in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Composer.

Johann Pachelbel is most famous for his Canon in D Major.