Chaconne in f minor johann pachelbel biography

A Chaconne and a Passacaille are very similar.

Chaconne in f minor johann pachelbel biography

Both use an ostinato theme throughout the piece. The Chaconne in F minor by Johann Pachelbel is one of his most famous works. The ostinato is a very simple one and appears as the pedal’s voice almost during the whole piece.

Above this ostinato, the piece consists of 22 variations, which often are repeated.

Organ players like to use those to exhibit the various stops of an instrument, e.g. they add and remove stops at each variation.

For the – almost identical – opening and closing variation, many use the Diapason 8′.

F minor chord

On frenchorgues, usually the Bourdon 8 is added. Vidas Pinkevicius and Ausra Motuzaite-Pinkeviciene do it this way, and so do I. I also follow their approach to alter the manuals during repeating variations.

In contrast to most organ players, I do not alter the registration throughout the piece, though.

It is assumed that it is one of the later works of Pachelbel.

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