He was very well liked.

Pachelbel's work enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime; he had many pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central Germany. However, he did not have much influence on the most important composers of the late Baroque such as Johann Sebastian Bach.

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虽然帕海贝尔的作品很受后世欢迎，但在巴洛克时期，名声没能盖过其弟子，音乐之父巴赫。