HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS: BASED ON CANON IN D
Watch this beautiful choral adaptation, based on Pachebel's Canon in D.
ABOUT 'HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS'
Lyrics: From Matthew 21:9
Music: Johann Pachelbel
Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
Johann Pachelbel was one of the most influential and successful composers of the middle baroque era in Germany, and a close friend of the Bach family. Principally an organist, he also wrote vocal and chamber music, including the well-known Canon in D.
The original score for this music is lost—the earliest known manuscript copy dates from around 1840—but the work remained obscure before enjoying a sudden popular revival in the 1970s. Instrumental adaptations of Pachelbel’s Canon in D abound, and there have been several vocal and choral arrangements recorded as well.
Mack Wilberg’s new choral adaptation of this music sets a text drawn from Matthew 21:9, “Hosanna in the highest!”