Who is Pachelbel?
It is likely that more people are familiar with the piece of music called Pachelbel’s Canon, also known as the Canon in D, than know the full name or anything of the history of the composer, Johann Pachelbel. Written in 1680, it is still a very popular piece at weddings, and has been the subject of a wide range of interpretations, not to mention parodies, all of which keeps the seventeenth century composer’s name alive in the twenty-first century.
