The available biographical information about Johann Pachelbel and Wolfgang Printz does not indicate that Pachelbel ever studied under Printz. Their life paths crossed neither geographically nor institutionally in a way that would suggest a teacher–student relationship. Printz studied at the University of Altdorf from 1659 to 1661, but he had left long before Pachelbel began his studies there in 1669, and there is no evidence of personal or pedagogical contact.
Since no direct mentorship or instructional connection is recorded between them, any relationship of the type "studied under" must be understood only in a general sense: both were active in the German musical and theoretical traditions of the 17th century, and Pachelbel may have been indirectly exposed to ideas circulating in the same intellectual environment in which Printz worked. However, there is no indication that Printz played a role in Pachelbel’s formal musical education.
