Johann Pachelbel Mark Jose
(1653 - 1706) 02/06/06
Period 4
German composer and organist. He studied music with Heinrich Schwemmer and
G. C. Wecker, attended lectures at the Auditorium aegidianum and entered the university
at Altdorf in 1669, where he also served as organist at the Lorenzkirche. He was forced to
leave the university after less than a year owing to lack of funds, and became a scholarship
student at the Gymnasium poeticum at Regensburg, taking private instruction under
Kaspar Prentz. In 1673 Pachelbel went to Vienna and became deputy organist at St.
Stephen's Cathedral; in 1677 he became organist in Thuringen at the Eisenach court,
where he served for slightly over a year. This was an important move, since it was here
that he became a dose friend of the town's most prominent musician,
Johann......
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