It takes more guts than you might think to open a Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Series event with the Pachelbel Canon. According to the program booklet it is the first time in the history of ...

Johann Pachelbel was one of the most influential and successful composers of the middle baroque era in Germany, and a close friend of the Bach family. Principally an organist, he also wrote vocal and ...

Love it or hate it, Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most famous pieces of classical music of all time, but the facts behind the composition aren’t as well known. Classic FM busts the myths behind ...

The best Christmas music is heartwarming. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Canon” is a shockingly cynical rebrand of an earlier piece of classical music. The tune is awful — but it’ll stick ...

As wedding traditions evolve, it becomes increasingly common to walk down the aisle to sappy, chart-toppers by Ed Sheeran or wistful acoustic covers of classic rock hits. But Johann Pachelbel’s “Canon ...

I cannot say that I fully understand the deep inroads Pachelbel’s Canon in D has made into Korean pop culture, but like the other 48 million people who have watched Funtwo’s rock guitar version of the ...

Love it or hate it, Pachelbel’s Canon in D is one of the most famous pieces of classical music of all time, but the facts behind the composition aren’t as well known. Classic FM busts the myths behind ...

As wedding traditions evolve, it becomes increasingly common to walk down the aisle to sappy, chart-toppers by Ed Sheeran or wistful acoustic covers of classic rock hits. But Johann Pachelbel's Canon ...