Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) - In Festo Paschatos ’Christ lag in Todes Banden’ ()

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Johann Pachelbel! 🎁👑 Composer: Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Work: In Festo Paschatos. | Christ lag in Todes Banden. | â 10. | Soprano, Alto, Tenore, Basso | 2 Violini, 3 Viole, 1 Basson () Performers: Claire Leffiliаtre (soprano); Hans Jörg Mаmmel (tenor); Choeur de Chambre de Nаmur & Les Agrémеns; Jean Tubéry (conductor) Painting: Lumen Portengen (1608-1649) - The Concert HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Johann Pachelbel [Bachelbel, Pachelbell, Pachhebel] (Nuremberg, bap. 1 September 1653 - Nuremberg, 9 March 1706) German organist and composer. He received his early education at the St. Lorenz school in Nuremberg and then entered the university at Altdorf in June 1669 but because of finances had to transfer to the Gymnasium Poeticum at Regensburg, where he qualified for a scholarship and was allowed to study music under Kaspar Prentz outside the normal curriculum. In 1673, he became deputy organist at Stefansdom in Vienna, where he possibly studied with Johann Caspar Kerll and doubtless learned much about Catholic liturgical music. He then moved to Eisenach in Thuringia, becoming organist on 4 May 1677. The next year, he left for Erfurt, possibly because the mourning for his patron’s brother, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Jena, reduced musical activities. He began a 12-year residence at the Predigerkirche at Erfurt on 19 June 1678. On 25 October 1681 he married Barbara Gabler, but she and their son were carried off in a plague of September 1683. He then married Judith Trommert on 24 August 1684, and together they had five sons and two daughters. Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (1686-1764) became a well-known musician in Germany, and another son, Carl Theodorus Pachelbel (1690-1750), brought his father’s music to the American colonies. During this period, in Thuringia, he taught music to Johann Christoph Bach, who would later teach Johann Sebastian Bach. He took up a new post as organist at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart on 1 September 1690, but a French invasion forced him back to Thuringia, and he became the town organist for Gotha. He remained there, refusing one invitation to return to Stuttgart and another to move to Oxford, until the invitation from his home city of Nuremberg came shortly after the death of Sebalduskirche organist Georg Kaspar Wecker on 20 April 1695. Johann Pachelbel was a prolific composer of such renown in the late 17th-century musical life of central Germany that his home city, Nuremberg, waived the normal practice of inviting prominent candidates to be examined for its most important musical position organist of Sebalduskirche, and simply asked Pachelbel, then town organist at Gotha, to take the job.