Johann Pachelbel: Beyond the Canon
This music was written by a composer who these days is regarded as a "one-hit wonder", a composer remembered today for a single piece. This isn't that piece.
The composer of this delightful music was Johann Pachelbel, today remembered for his three-part Canon over a ground bass.
Pachelbel wrote a lot of very fine music, and the famous Canon - for all its familiarity today - is usually played in a manner completely at odds with the composer's intentions.
It was on his skills an organist that Pachelbel's fame rested during his lifetime. He rapidly became known as one of southern Germany's finest organist and church composers, even at a relatively early age, and his legacy of organ music is staggering. Some 250 separate pieces are known today; many more have undoubtedly been lost.
The first stanza of the Lutheran chorale on which the prelude is founded is
When in the hour of utmost need
We know not where to look for aid,
When days and nights of anxious thought
Nor help nor counsel yet have brought.
Played on Haupterk sample set of Giubiasco, Switzerland. Thumbnail is of the console .
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