Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D

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.

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It isn't surprising that most people have one or two favourite compositions from various composers. There is so much beautiful music to be heard, and so little time in today's world to listen to it all.