The Story Behind 'Canon In D Major' by Pachelbel

The Story Behind "Canon In D Major" by Pachelbel

Like his other works, Pachelbel's Canon went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles; by the early 1980s its presence as background music was deemed inescapable. From the 1970s onward, elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs. Since the 1980s, it has also found increasingly common use in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.

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[TristanMA]

I place the Canon in my Christmas Playlist and as a One-Hit Wonder. The base line from the Canon appears in Jolly-Old St. Nicholas, and even the trans-siberian orchestra's arrangement.

[Marcus_pePunkt]

The pronunciation of the names is wrong and sounds awful. It would be nice if you made more of an effort.
I know that in English 'ch' is pronounced more like a 'k' in some cases, but that applies to normal words and sounds so wrong for names and does not do justice to the original in any way.

Interesting story though.