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Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was born in Nuremberg and showed great musical talent at an early age. He was tremendously influential as both an organist and a composer. He became friends with Johann Ambrosius Bach (father of Johann Sebastian) during his short time in Eisenach (1677-78), but continued the friendship after his move to Erfurt, where the Bach family was very well-known.
It is a great shame that he tends to be known nowadays - apart from among cognoscenti in the organ world - for his Canon in D, as there is much else to enjoy. It was originally for three violins and basso continuo and is a ground (i.e. repeating) bass, with some masterful weaving and invention as it progresses. There have been plenty of arrangements made for all sort of combinations of instruments. I am playing Jerry Lanning's version, which packs in just about as many notes of the original as can be played by two hands and is the most successful version I have come across. I have deliberately kept the registration plain to correspond to the original instrumentation.