![]() I find it very comforting to listen to.Īnd now for something completely different. Whether or not he wrote all of the music is a question I guess only he can answer. Here are nine chorales, harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach. 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.Īnd the list of Bach Chorales is growing. ![]() 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. 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. Johann Pachelbel (1653 – 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. You thought I was done with the music lessons, didn’t you? You were so wrong….
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