Free Pachelbel sheet music
15 Pachelbel scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryJohann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
German organist of the generation before Bach, respected in his lifetime as a teacher and church musician in Nuremberg, and known today for a single piece he would have thought one of his least important. The Canon in D sat unplayed for nearly three centuries until a 1968 recording turned it into the most performed piece of Baroque music on earth, at weddings, in adverts, and under a thousand pop songs that borrow its chords. He taught Johann Christoph Bach, who taught his younger brother Johann Sebastian, so the line to the Well-Tempered Clavier runs through him.
Start with these
The easiest Pachelbel on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
Every Pachelbel score
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Pachelbel rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.