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'''Johann Pachelbel''' (1653-1706), [[German]] [[Baroque]] composer and organist, belonged to that generation of composer/musicians ([[Buxtehude]], [[von Biber]], [[Arcangelo Corelli]] and others) whose compositional skills and instrumental virtuosity prepared the scene for the now better known [[J. S. Bach]], [[G. F. Handel]], [[Vivaldi]] and others of the [[High Baroque]].

'''Johann Pachelbel''' (1653-1706), [[German]] [[Baroque]] composer and organist, belonged to that generation of composer/musicians ([[Buxtehude]], [[von Biber]], [[Arcangelo Corelli]] and others) whose compositional skills and instrumental virtuosity prepared the scene for the now better known [[J. S. Bach]], [[G. F. Handel]], [[Vivaldi]] and others of the [[High Baroque]].

A native of [[Nuremberg]], he was taught by a couple of local teachers, before entering the nearby Altdorf University in 1669 and becoming organist at the Lorenzkirche. He left within the year – financial restraints – and managed to gain a scholarship to the Gymnasium Poeticum at Regensburg; which arranged external musical tuition for him from Kaspar Prentz, whose [[Italianate]] leanings were to influence certain of Pachelbel’s later compositions.  

A native of [[Nuremberg]], he was taught by a couple of local teachers, before entering the nearby Altdorf University in 1669 and becoming organist at the Lorenzkirche. He left within the year – financial restraints – and managed to gain a scholarship to the Gymnasium Poeticum at Regensburg; which arranged external musical tuition for him from Kaspar Prentz, whose [[Italian]]ate leanings were to influence certain of Pachelbel’s later compositions.  

During the period 1673 to 1678 he was in Vienna, studying under Johann Kaspar Kerll whilst filling the deputy organist post at Stephanskirche (to 1677) and the next year as court organist at Eisenach; before accepting the post of organist at Predigerkirche which he was to hold for 12 years – extremely productive years, when most of his chorales were written and he was in demand as an organist and teacher – and married twice. (He lost his first wife and their only son in a plague epidemic in 1683.)

During the period 1673 to 1678 he was in Vienna, studying under Johann Kaspar Kerll whilst filling the deputy organist post at Stephanskirche (to 1677) and the next year as court organist at Eisenach; before accepting the post of organist at Predigerkirche which he was to hold for 12 years – extremely productive years, when most of his chorales were written and he was in demand as an organist and teacher – and married twice. (He lost his first wife and their only son in a plague epidemic in 1683.)

Reference: “The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music”

Reference: “The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music”

 

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