(Yo’-han Pakh’-el-bel) 1653–1706 German composer Pachelbel held the position of court organist at Eisenach (where he taught J. S. Bach’s eldest brother Johann Christoph) before taking up the same post at Erfurt. It was here that he published his first organ music, Musicalischen Sterbens-Gedancken (‘Musical Meditation on Death’, 1683). In 1690 he moved to Stuttgart and then Gotha before becoming organist ...
together with instructions on how they should be performed. Recommended Recording: Concerti grossi, Musica Aeterna Bratislava (dir) Peter Zajícek (Naxos) Introduction | Early Baroque | Classical Personalities | Johann Pachelbel | Early Baroque | Classical ...
Occasionally, a town or city is so integral to a style of music that the music takes its name from the place. In the early 1960s, Liverpool gave rise to the Mersey sound and Merseybeat; in the late-1980s and early 1990s, England’s Manchester spawned so–called Madchester. As much a clubbing scene and youth sub-culture as a style of ...
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