Johann Pachelbel

1653 – 1706

Personal details

Musical training in Nuremberg with Heinrich Schwemmer and in Regensburg, among others; from 1673 temporary organist at St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna for three years; 1678?1690 organist at the Protestant Predigerkirche in Erfurt; after working briefly in Stuttgart and Gotha, returned to Nuremberg in 1695, organist at St Sebald's until his death; one of the leading organ virtuosos of his time.