It's a wedding classic, beloved by many around the world. But is it really what it says it is? (spoiler: no) First up, enjoy a beautiful scrolling score of the famous piece, make by Gerubach here. You ...

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 distinctive chirps of singing cicadas are a highlight of summer in regions where they proliferate; those chirps even featured prominently on Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power. Now, Japanese ...

Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” is like the Doom of the music world. It’s been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would truly be easier to find an ...

Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, is the birthday (or at least the baptism day) of another pilgrim: Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690-1750). He was the son of Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist, ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is a news editor with The Associated Press and a cellist who has played the eight notes in the bass line of Pachelbel's "Canon" at weddings nearly a gazillion times. It's not ...

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 ...

What this release – with the Pachelbel Canon, gracefully played, as its obvious draw – certainly creates is a brightly lit shop window for The English Concert’s approach to music of the 17th and 18th ...

Tomorrow marks the 313th anniversary of Johann Pachelbel’s burial in his native city of Nuremburg, Germany. That a three-digit, vaguely trinitarian prime number rather than the usual multiple of a ...

Pachelbel's "Canon in D" is like the Doom of the music world. It's been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells — it would truly be easier to find an ...