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| Keywords: JohannChristophPachelbel.jpg Johann Christoph Pachelbel portrait circa 1748 <p><u>Important usage note</u> all indications are that this is <u>not</u> Johann Pachelbel the famous composer best known in modern times for the composition Canon in D though it's possible he's a relative The composer died in 1706 42 years before the date the sketch itself provides internally as placed by its unknown 18th century author <p>Additionally despite his fame and the existence of contemporaneous writings about him during his lifetime no source has been located indicating the composer had the middle name Christoph or even a mention of him with a middle initial C <p>Be very circumspect when looking at external sources that use this image or one of the other versions of it also found on the Wikimedia Commons as in any way proving this is indeed the composer as hundreds of uses on the Internet of this image proliferated by the false association previously provided on this page and the other versions at other files name here http //www kunstderfuge com/pachelbel htm author 1748 PD-old-100 PD-Art PD-old-100 1748 in Germany 18th-century portraits of men | ||||
