Pachebel: Toccata in E Minor

Strathroy United Church organist and music director Edith Hanselman performs Pachebel's Toccata in E Minor as the postlude for the May 11, 2008 Pentecost Christian Family Sunday service.

Johann Pachelbel (baptised September 1, 1653 -- buried March 9, 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 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. In addition to the canon, his most well-known works include the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.

Pachelbel's music was influenced by southern German composers, such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Kaspar Kerll, Italians such as Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers, and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. Pachelbel preferred a lucid, uncomplicated contrapuntal style that emphasized melodic and harmonic clarity. His music is less virtuosic and less adventurous harmonically than that of Dieterich Buxtehude, although, like Buxtehude, Pachelbel experimented with different ensembles and instrumental combinations in his chamber music and, most importantly, his vocal music, much of which features exceptionally rich instrumentation. Pachelbel explored many variation forms and associated techniques, which manifest themselves in various diverse pieces, from sacred concertos to harpsichord suites.

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[yashil17]

who's picture is that?

[rocketsforever]

The painting was done by a member of our congregation. He placed it at the front of the church along with the flowers just as the service was starting. I have not yet heard of the identity of the person in the painting although it resembles our minister.

[tedoymisojos]

WOW WHAT A LADY! Great music

[zippyman818]

Wow, what a beautiful way to end a Sunday Service.