Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer
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Place of Birth: Erfurt, Germany
About Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel
- Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (baptized 29 August 1686 – 1764) was a German composer and organist, the elder son of Johann Pachelbel. He was born in Erfurt and spent the first four years of his life there.
- The Pachelbel family moved to Stuttgart in 1690, then, fleeing from the War of the Grand Alliance, to Gotha in 1692, and finally to Nuremberg in 1695.
- Wilhelm Hieronymus almost certainly received his first music education from his father.
- By age 14 he was proficient enough on the keyboard to receive special commendation from the town council of Nuremberg.
- After leaving Nuremberg, he worked as organist at Fürth and his native Erfurt's Predigerkirche, before returning and taking the position at St.
- Jakob in 1706, shortly before his father's death.
- That same year J.S.
- Richter succeeded Johann Pachelbel at the city's largest church, Sebalduskirche; Wilhelm Hieronymus took Richter's former position at St.
- Egidienkirche.
- He remained in Nuremberg for the rest of his life, working at St.
- Egidien until 1719, when Richter died and Wilhelm Hieronymus was chosen to succeed him at Sebalduskirche. Only seven pieces by Wilhelm Hieronymus survive, all of them for keyboard.
- While three show the influence of his father (the Toccata in G major, the chorale partita on "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig", and the fugal prelude to Fantasia super Meine Seele, lass es gehen), in the remaining works Pachelbel shows a preference for technique that is harmonically and contrapuntally simpler, influenced by the emerging Classical style.
- Two such pieces were published by Pachelbel himself.
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