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Johann Pachelbel

Pachelbel's Canon, to which the composer owes his fame down the centuries, is in fact just one small piece in an immense body of work. Born in Nuremberg, where he was baptized on September 1, 1653, Johann Pachelbel was the son of a wine merchant. He began his musical studies in his native city with the composer Heinrich Schwemmer, the future cantor of St. Sebaldus Church, and to a lesser extent with the organist Georg Caspar Wecker, although this has not yet been established. In any case, these two local eminences were taught by Johann Erasmus Kindermann, one of the founders of t...