Category Organists and composers in the North German tradition Dear Dcrean I no longer edit on Wikipedia but I do log on sometimes just to see what s up and I felt I have to say at least something about the category you re filling in rather than editing it myself starting a debate on whether stuff is true or not etc largely because Pachelbel and Kerll are among my favorite composers and it kind of pains me to see these things The following composers most definitely do NOT belong in the North German category Johann Pachelbel Abraham van den Kerckhoven Johann Gottfried Walther Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Johann Krieger Johann Kaspar Kerll Pachelbel and Krieger both Kriegers in fact Johann and Johann Philipp are the most important south German composers of the era and the last important composers of the Nuremberg school Kerll along with Froberger was one of the founders of the South German tradition Sweelinck and Kerckhoven are both from Netherlands and even though Sweelinck s pupils such as Scheidemann and Scheidt founded the North German school Sweelinck himself is never considered a North German composer Neither are van Noordt or Cornet the two organ composers in Netherlands who inherited the Sweelinck tradition Pretty much any book or article on the subject will confirm what I just said even the New Grove which like almost every other publication seems to dismiss the South German school as ultimately inferior to the North German one and doesn t even mention Pachelbel in its article on the fugue Best wishes