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Johann Pachelbel (1653 – 1706).
Canon for 3 violins & continuo in D major.
Musica Antiqua Köln:
Reinhard Goebel: Violin.
Karlheinz Steeb: Viola.
Jaap ter Linden: Violoncello.
Jean Michel Forest: Violone.
Andreas Staier: Harpsichord.
Dir: Reinhard Goebel.
Johann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era.
Pachelbel’s work enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime; he had many pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central Germany. Today, Pachelbel is best known for the Canon in D, the only canon he wrote. In addition to the canon, his most well-known works include the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.
Pachelbel’s music was influenced by southern 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 preferred a lucid, uncomplicated contrapuntal style that emphasized melodic and harmonic clarity. His music is less virtuosic and less adventurous harmonically than that of Dieterich Buxtehude, although, like Buxtehude, Pachelbel experimented with different ensembles and instrumental combinations in his chamber music and, most importantly, his vocal music, much of which features exceptionally rich instrumentation. Pachelbel explored many variation forms and associated techniques, which manifest themselves in various diverse pieces, from sacred concertos to harpsichord suites.
it has more power at this speed, it’s more dinamic, i love it, thx for sharing
This is true, especially of this piece, which was intended to be paired with a gigue, which means it was not a slower song, however most modernizations of this song have the tempo set at about one quarter of this speed, despite the original intention of the song.
hehe, thanks, I’m considering perhaps… a crusade against modernists… Well it’s nothing wrong with the modern style, but I’m sick of they being favored as “those which play the music correctly”.
Almost nobody has heard a periodic performance of Mozart, Beethoven or Haydn…
And the weak minded public think that the way these modernists play that music must be as they played it back in the 18th century…
=( that makes me sad. because the music then was rougher, tougher and without vibrato.
KarlAmade,
I agree. This is much better then the, as you so perfectly put it the “terribly romantic modernized samples”.
This is so wonderful. I love this better than the version played at weddings.
i played this song in orchestra it is my favorite song on double bass
no, this is more correct than these terrible Romantic modernized samples used in weddings. This is baroque music, not music from the early 20th century >=P
where is the player??
way too fast..
the gigue was Johann Christoph Pachelbels creation that he added to the canon, it was a part of canon, but the ppl who made it fall aside were bastards in my opinion, becasue they ruined mr.Pachelbels piece, JUST LIKE JERRY YC.
yashil17,
In the time period 1975-1985 the two were inextricably linked. The gigue seemed to fall by the wayside. While I don’t know where you should look, google “Pachelbel’s Canon and Gigue Sheet”. I *think* that you would be successful.
can u please tell me how to find the gigue, only the gigue sheet music for violin, it could be with the canon.
u r the only one who knows what the gigue is, no one knew it and they still post it like jerry yc
What can I say.. I have never heard such a stylistic performance of this piece. This is a baroque piece and it is meant to be performed that way. I have heard awful romanticised versions of this, but this is how it is supposed to be played.
two thumbs up!
Reinhard Goebel is a great musician, he founded and conducted the Musica Antiqua Köln
(Cologne)….he knows everything about old music…
So nice…!
never heard this version.