Sad Sunday With Chaconne by Johann Pachelbel

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This could be a perfect occasion for a Sad Sunday post. The crypto market surprise from this morning is a topic that itself can bring sad faces and hearts, but as I am not an expert in that field, even not having a decent insight of why it has happened, I will concentrate on music. Just music and piano.

So music first. The piece you are listening to in this post is a Chaconne composed by Johann Pachelbel. Yes, that Pachelbel, who composed the maybe most famous classical music piece, Canon in D. It is so overplayed and connected to the name of the composer, that hardly we can imagine he composed any other thing. But yes, he was a composer and organist, who made a great impact on south German organ schools. He opened the way to other later baroque composers with his wide range of choral preludes and fugue, and both secular and sacred music came out from his heart.
Chaconne in F minor is a theme and variations, that actually has more variations than I play here. The reason I have chosen the shortened version is that it is slow, less virtuosic composition, and that clear and simple melodic and harmonic structure can lead to loss of attention in listeners.

Piano. This piece is composed for organ as the piano as an instrument didn't exist at that time. All the baroque keyboard music that we play nowadays in the instrument I play was written for organ or harpsichord. I would like to write one day, not so soon in the future, a post about the history of the keyboards instruments, but I will have to wait a little bit. Until the discomfort that I feel in my arms disappears.

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