Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was one of the most exceptional musical minds of his generation: a composer of brilliant choral and keyboard music and a huge influence on J.S Bach. Yet more than three ...

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was one of the most exceptional musical minds of his generation - a composer of brilliant choral and keyboard music and a huge influence on JS Bach. Yet more than three ...

The Music: Some news this month, fresh from the dreaming spires of Oxford. It concerns Johann Pachelbel – you know the chap, composer of that beautifully spacious yet understated Canon that rests on ...

Tomorrow marks the 313th anniversary of Johann Pachelbel’s burial in his native city of Nuremburg, Germany. That a three-digit, vaguely trinitarian prime number rather than the usual multiple of a ...

German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel meets hip-hop monarch, Nicki Minaj. It works better than you might think... Nicki France, a YouTube user who posted the video in 2013, uses the Canon as a ...

Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, is the birthday (or at least the baptism day) of another pilgrim: Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690-1750). He was the son of Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist, ...

What this release – with the Pachelbel Canon, gracefully played, as its obvious draw – certainly creates is a brightly lit shop window for The English Concert’s approach to music of the 17th and 18th ...

Watch a mashup video that pits hits from Green Day, the Beatles and My Chemical Romance up against the classic Have you ever wondered what makes pop songs dang catchy? If the production is clean, the ...

Donald Macleod looks at the life and music of this little-known German composer, whose life and music, aside from his world-famous Canon, remain obscure. Donald Macleod examines how history has ...