Music box Canon in D-Pachelbel's Canon

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The Pachelbel Canon (PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358), also known as the "Canon in d major" (German. Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur, eng. Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo) is the most famous work of the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. It was originally written for three violins and a General bass.



The exact date of creation is unknown, according to one assumption, the Canon was created in 1694 on the occasion of a marriage And. To. Bach. The work uses a combination of strict polyphonic form (Canon) and variation form, where three voices are combined into a Canon, and the fourth voice, the General bass, plays an independent theme.



First published in 1919, first recorded in 1940. By Arthur Fiedler. He became world-famous in the 1970s in a" slow-motion " arrangement.. F. Paillard, first recorded by his chamber orchestra in June 1968. The chord sequence from "Canon in d major" was used in several pop hits of the 1980s starting with the smash hit Go West by the disco group Village People (1979).