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| Keywords: Johann Pachelbel.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 the fuller uncropped version of this sketch has a stylized banner at the bottom from the artist saying Johann Christoph Pachelbel 1748 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 Unknown It may have been copied from one of the other similar versions of the same image also on this site Unknown The uploader falsely stated own work on his or her upload “ an impossibility unless the uploader was alive in or about 1748 PD-old-100 1748 PD-old-100 1748 in Germany 18th-century portraits of men | ||||
