Piano Concert by Students of Robert Hemmen

Canon in D is one of the most famous baroque composition by the German virtuoso Johann Pachelbel. He was the teacher of Johann Christoph Bach, who in turn was the teacher (and the elder brother) of THE Bach. The way how Pachelbel leveraged the canonical form and added layers of harmonic improvisation one by one on top as the melody progresses is sheer brilliance. Yet the uncluttered final simplicity felt in the collective end product is magical.

This composition is originally written for 3 violins and a Basso Continuo. But in this rendering, around 18 Students of Robert Hemmen from Globe CKC in Hilversum have attempted this out and out in Piano. Such an adoption of this canon is indeed a novel experiementation. Skill set of these students vary from 6 months to a few years of training.

This piece is belived to have been composed around 1680 and fitting with the Baroque mold of the time, The Bosso continuo stays the same throughout. It provides the Harmonic foudnation for the composition throughout and can be treated as an Ostinato. Being a beginner, this is also the track that Vedanth is playing.

There are 4 group of students playing this in unision. And there are about 10 unique patterns lasting 2 bars each are tried out in this rendering. Each Pattern is identified as A,B,C and so on. So Following Table demonstrates the scheme in which the Students played the various parts.

Group 1 - Ba Co: |A|A|A|A|A|A|A|A|A|A|
Group 2- Violin 1 | |B|B|D|D|F|F|H|H|H|
Group 3- Violin 2 | | |C|C|C|D|G|G|G|J|
Group 4- Violin 3 | | | |B|E|E|E|E|I|I|

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Music

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• Piano
• Baroque
• Canon
• in
• Pachelbel