Johann Caspar Kerll
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Johann Caspar Kerll was a German Baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle.
Portrait, made around 1685–1688 during his stay in Munich.
Johann Pachelbel
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Johann Pachelbel was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to t
Johann Caspar Kerll
…He worked at Vienna, Munich and Brussels, and also travelled widely. His pupils included Agostino Steffani, Franz Xaver Murschhauser, and possibly Johann Pachelbel, and his influence is seen in works by Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach: Handel frequently borrowed themes and fragments of music from Kerll's works…
St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg, which played an important role in Pachelbel's life
Predigerkirche, the Erfurt church, where Pachelbel worked for 12 years, starting in 1678
Pachelbel's letter
Pachelbel's tomb at the St. Rochus Cemetery in Nuremberg