Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Johann Pachelbel


Related Topics

  
  HOASM: Johann Pachelbel
In 1678, Pachelbel obtained the first of the two important positions he was to hold during his lifetime when he became organist at the Protestant Predigerkirche at Erfurt, where he established his reputation as organist, composer, and teacher.
Pachelbel, like many of this foremost contemporaries, was somehow able to combine his professional activities as a church musician, secular musician and teacher, not to mention his responsibilities as the father of a large family, with his activities as a composer.
Pachelbel's geographical situation, midway between Vienna and Lubeck, was mirrored in his musical situation, equally distant from the harmonic subtleties of Richter as from the passionate vehemence of Buxtehude.
www.hoasm.org /VIB/Pachelbel.html   (1540 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel sheet music
Pachelbels Canon in the key of F, arranged as a duo for Alto Sax and Piano.
Pachelbels Canon in D arranged as a duo for Clarinet and Piano.
Pachelbels Canon in D arranged as a trio for Flute, Cello and Piano.
www.music-scores.com /pachelbel/composer.php   (432 words)

  
 Pachelbel, Johann: Biography
Johann Pachelbel began his musical instruction under Schwemmer and later at the Universities of Altdorf and Ratisbon.
In 1671 Johann moved to Vienna where he became student and deputy organist to Kerll at the Imperial chapel.
Johann Pachelbel's repertory is the stylistic ancestor of J. Bach's, particularly his technique of chorale variation.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/jpachelbel.html   (134 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel swicki - powered by eurekster
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak.
Pachelbel's work enjoyed massive popularity during his lifetime; he had a large number of pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central Germany.
Today Pachelbel is best known for his Canon in D; it is the only canon he wrote, and is somewhat unrepresentative of the rest of his oeuvre.
johann-pachelbel-swicki.eurekster.com   (346 words)

  
  Johann Pachelbel biography - 8notes.com
Pachelbel was organist at Erfurt, in the Thuringian region of Germany.
Pachelbel served in the capelle in Eisenach, the home city of Ambrosius Bach and birthplace of his many children including Johann Sebastian and Johann Christoph, for a year in the 1670s.
Johann Pachelbel: Canon In D Composed by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), arranged by Samuel Marder.
www.8notes.com /biographies/pachelbel.asp   (699 words)

  
  Johann Pachelbel
Pachelbel lived in an age when composers geared their output to the needs of their environment; originality was not at a premium, but nor was it entirely precluded.
Pachelbel?s crowning achievement as a composer of variations is Hexachordum Apollinis (Nuremberg, 1699), a group of six arias with variations which, according to the title-page, may be performed on the organ or the harpsichord, both of which are depicted.
Pachelbel?s G major partita for five-part strings consists of a sequence of six movements that gives it the identity of a German 17th-century orchestral suite, though the placing of an aria between the sarabande and the gigue looks forward to the early 18th century.
emc.elte.hu /~pinter/pachelbel.html   (6569 words)

  
  Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer and organist best remembered for his Canon in D, which is often heard at weddings.
Pachelbel was organist at Erfurt, in the Thuringian region of Germany and his harmonizations of church chorales seem to have been inspirational to the young Johann Sebastian Bach, whose older brother, Johann Chistoph Bach[?], had been Pachelbel's organ student.
Pachelbel served in the capelle in Eisenach, the home city of Ambrosius Bach[?] and birthplace of his many children including Johann Sebastian and Johann Christoph, for a year in the 1670s.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Johann_Pachelbel.html   (161 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel - an overview of the classical composer
Johann Pachelbel was born in and died in Nuremberg in Germany.
Pachelbel's career as organist included a post at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, and also at the courts of Eisenach and Stuttgart.
His sons (Wilhelm Hieronymus and Carl Theodore) were also destined to follow in Pachelbel's footsteps as organists and composers in their own right.
www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Johann-Pachelbel.htm   (306 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel Summary
Pachelbel's music was influenced by south German composers such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Kaspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition.
Pachelbel's tomb at the Rochus Cemetery (Rochuskirchhof) in Nuremberg.
Pachelbel's apparent affinity for variation form is evident from his organ works that explore the genre: chaconnes, chorale variations and several sets of arias with variations.
www.bookrags.com /Johann_Pachelbel   (6357 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Johann Pachelbel (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Johann Pachelbel[pAkhel´bel, pAkh´ulbel´´] Pronunciation Key, 1653–1706, German organist and composer, b.
Pachelbel is credited with significant influence on the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Erfurt, and Carl Theodorus Pachelbel, 1690–1750, were also musicians and composers; they primarily followed their father's style.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pachelbl.html   (272 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel biography
He was employed as an organist at Erfurt, then at court in Stuttgart, as organist at Gotha and finally from 1695 in his native city of Nuremberg, where he died in 1706.
As a leading performer on the instrument, Pachelbel wrote a considerable amount of organ music, including a series of organ chorales, based on well known Lutheran hymn-tunes.
Pachelbel composed a number of sacred concertos, works for voices and a small group of instruments on sacred texts as well as a number of Magnificat and other settings for the evening service of Vespers.
www.kunstderfuge.com /bios/pachelbel.html   (250 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel - Works
Pachelbel's father enrolled him in the St. Lorenz high school, but soon recognized his music potential, so he arranged for his son to receive outside musical training from two leading instructors: Heinrich Schwemmer and organist Georg Caspar Wecker.
Johann Kaspar Kerll also moved to Vienna in 1673, and though Pachelbel's music reflects various aspects of Kerll's technique, no evidence exists that Pachelbel was ever trained directly by Kerll.
This left the family shattered, and Johann Sebastian was sent to live with a cousin; however, this cousin had financial difficulties and sent Johann Sebastian to live with his brother Johann Christoph in Ohrdruf who trained him using techniques taught to him by Pachelbel.
www.pachelbel.us /biography.shtml   (1207 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel (Composer) - Short Biography
The German composer, Johann Pachelbel, received his first instruction in music from Heinrich Schwemmer, and subsequently at the university of Altdorf for one year, undertaking duties as organist at the same time.
In 1668 or 1669 he went to Ratisbon to the 'Gymnasium poeticum', and in 1671 or 1672 to Vienna, where, from 1673 onwards, he was a pupil of J. Kaspar Kerl, and apparently acted as his deputy as organist for him in the Imperial chapel.
Johann Pachelbel's importance in the history of music is due the fact that he was one of the spiritual ancestors of J.S. Bach.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Lib/Pachelbel-Johann.htm   (868 words)

  
 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
3, 1706, is noted by music historians for his influence on Johann Sebastian Bach.
Pachelbel was himself a composer of importance, and his works are still played.
His son Carl Theodorus Pachelbel, (born November 24, 1690, death Charleston, September 14, 1750) immigrated to the American colonies in about 1730 and became a prominent musician in Newport, New York, and Charleston.
www.karadar.it /Dictionary/pachelbel.html   (87 words)

  
 Canon D, musique du mémorial Basset Hound du compositeur Johann Pachelbel
It was composed by a man named Johann Pachelbel, not one of the most famous composers, but he certanly had a impact on European music.
Johann Pachelbel was born in July, 1653 in Nuremberg, Germany and was interested in music ever since he was young.
There is no solid evedence that Pachelbel was a student of Kerll, but his music style shows that of a pupul of Kerll's.
www.portail-basset-hound.com /memorial/pachelbel_johann.htm   (674 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel | Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Johann Pachelbel: Canon In DComposed by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), arranged by Samuel Marder.
Johann Pachelbel: Canon In DComposed by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706).
Pachelbel composed the majority of his 527 works for keyboard instruments, as well as choral, vocal and chamber music and the Catalogue presents incipits for each that can be identified.
www.classical-composers.org /comp/pachelbe   (1533 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel - Organ, Harpsichord, & Chamber Music CD
Pachelbel was in fact a working organist all his life.
At 42 minutes and forming the major part of our record, Pachelbel's crowning achievement as a composer of variations is his Hexachordum Apollinis (1699), a group of six arias with variations which, according to the title page, may be performed on the organ or the harpsichord, both of which are depicted.
Of Pachelbel's surviving works for Chamber Ensemble, the most important are the Six Suites for Two Violins and Continuo constituting his Musicalische Ergötzung ("Musical Celebration") published at some unspecified date after he had moved to Nuremberg in 1695.
www.baroquecds.com /30Web.html   (584 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel Biography - famous Johann Pachelbel Classical collection and Johann Pachelbel Music Reviews.
An important German composer of Protestant church music, Johann Pachelbel brought to his art an element acquired from acquaintance with Catholic forms of music in Vienna and Italy.
He was employed as an organist at Erfurt, then at court in Stuttgart, as organist at Gotha and finally from 1695 in his native city of Nuremberg, where he died in 1706.
Pachelbel composed a number of sacred concertos, works for voices and a small group of instruments on sacred texts as well as a number of Magnificat and other settings for the evening service of Vespers.
www.naxos.com /composerinfo/772.htm   (245 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel ORGAN WORKS
A native of Nuremberg, Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was one of the great organ masters of the generation before J. Bach.
Remarkably prolific, Pachelbel composed in a variety of musical genres in a lucid, uncomplicated style.
THE FUGUES ON THE MAGNIFICAT FOR ORGAN OR KEYBOARD, Johann Pachelbel.
www.midi-classics.com /p1537.htm   (256 words)

  
 Johann Pachelbel
The threat of a French invasion curtailed this position two years later, and Pachelbel returned to his hometown of Nuremberg to take up the post of organist at St Sebald.
The work is scored for three violins and continuo, each violin entering in turn and elaborating on a simple theme as the piece gathers in strength and builds to a climax.
But Pachelbel's importance is, in fact, perhaps greater as a composer for the organ; his chorale preludes, based on hymn tunes, strongly influenced J.S. Bach.
hem.passagen.se /alkerstj/worldofclassicalmusic/baroque/johann_pachelbel.html   (355 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Pachelbel, Johann - Classical: Music
Most Relaxing Classical Album by Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Edvard Grieg, Johann Pachelbel, and Erik Satie by EMI Music Canada (Audio CD - 1999)
Reference Classics First Samp by William Walton (Composer), Johann Pachelbel, Franz Liszt, and Ottorino Respighi by Reference Recordings (Audio CD - 2003)
Pachelbel's Greatest Hit by Rudolf Baumgartner (Conductor), Glenn Spreen, Johann Pachelbel (Composer), and George Rochberg by Sony Music Canada Inc. (Audio CD - 1991)
www.amazon.ca /s/ref=dp_mu_cd_73/701-7853457-6387552?ie=UTF8&search-alias=classical&keywords=Pachelbel%2C%20Johann   (422 words)

  
 Sheet Music Plus - Canon In D - by Johann Pachelbel
Sheet Music Plus - Canon In D - by Johann Pachelbel
By Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), arranged by Robert Schultz.
Canon In D - Easy Piano By Johann Pachelbel...
www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=1587486&id=79590   (104 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.