Well my classical music knowledge is scarce, so I have decided to explore more on the subject of those classical melodies that we can hear from time to time but we aren’t able to identify them.
Last week I posted about Aranjuez and its concert.Today, after an stressing week, I need something relaxing…
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) 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, among them J. Cristoph Bach brother of J. Sebastian Bach, 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 – although a true canon at the unison in three parts, it is often regarded more as a passacaglia, and it is in this mode that it has been arranged and transcribed for many different media.
Enjoy the music and the fotos and the weekend.
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beautiful, breathtaking photography with a melancholic music as background. really made my week-end
Music is wonderful, but photo is mozart, not pachelbel… Un Jandepora?
Anonymous you are right the photo is Mozart, http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart_1.jpg. But the version of this masterpiece I prefer is this one.
I love pachelbel’s canon a lot. it has a calming effect in me. there’s a lot of classical music that gives me a chill everytime i hear it. like the violin romance also of beethoven i love it alot as well..but canon in d comes first. thanks for the post,.