Johann Pachelbel
In D major, range A1 to D4
The same short bass line comes round again and again, and each time the music on top of it grows a little richer. Pachelbel’s Canon lay unpublished until 1919 and only became famous after Jean-François Paillard’s recording of 1968.
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