7/22/2023 0 Comments George winston cannonBrewer, investigated a variety of possible connections between Pachelbel's and Heinrich Biber's published chamber music. Johann Christoph Bach, the oldest brother of Johann Sebastian Bach, was a pupil of Pachelbel. Johann Ambrosius Bach, Pachelbel, and other friends and family provided music for the occasion. Hans-Joachim Schulze, writing in 1985, suggested that the piece may have been composed for Johann Christoph Bach's wedding, on 23 October 1694, which Pachelbel attended. The circumstances of the piece's composition are wholly unknown. Another copy, previously in Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, is now lost. A single 19th-century manuscript copy of them survives, Mus.MS 16481/8 in the Berlin State Library. The Canon and Gigue in D major is one such piece. Only Musikalische Ergötzung-a collection of partitas published during Pachelbel's lifetime-is known, apart from a few isolated pieces in manuscripts. Little of his chamber music survives, however. In his lifetime, Pachelbel was renowned for his organ and other keyboard music, whereas today he is also recognized as an important composer of church and chamber music. Since the 1980s, it has also found increasingly common use in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world. From the 1970s onward, elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles by the early 1980s its presence as background music was deemed inescapable. Like his other works, Pachelbel's Canon went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. Neither the date nor the circumstances of its composition are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving manuscript copy of the piece dates from 1838 to 1842. Although a true canon at the unison in three parts, it also has elements of a chaconne. Both movements are in the key of D major. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Pachelbel's Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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