Biography

Schickele has written the fancied biography for P.D.Q. Bach, in the book A Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (1976; Just released York: Random Home; ISBN 0394734092). Based on data from this life:

Within his numerous preconcert lectures Peter Schickele has revealed more trading tools just about P.D.Q. Bach's life:

Music

Prof. Schickele describes P.D.Q. Bach when with "the originality of Johann Christian, the arrogance of Carl Philipp Emanuel, and the obscurity of Johann Christoph Friedrich." The virtually all identifying feature of P.D.Q. Bach's music, in the words of Schickele, is "manic plagiarism". P.D.Q. Bach rarely wrote original tunes; mostly he stole melodies from either more composers & rearranged the babies around typically funny ways. Too, P.D.Q. Bach's music utilizes instruments non typically utilized within orchestras, like a tromboon, slide whistle, hardart, lasso d'amore and kazoo, as well as items not normally used as musical instruments, such as balloons and bicycle. His music as well calls for unusual methods of swimming traditional instruments, like a utilize of horns in various states of disassembly throughout Iphigenia around Brooklyn. His area for vocalizer, additionally to singing, as well include coughing, snoring, sobbing, laughing & yelling.

Additionally to poke fun of Baroqueness & Classical music conventions, P.D.Q. Bach's music occasionally laugh at at Romantic & modern music, & periodically potentially country music (Oedipus Tex and Blaues Gras) & rap (Classical Rap). Within Prelude to Einstein on the Fritz, the human is directed to produce snoring noises when the music proceeds within a minimalist manner.

Schickele divides P.D.Q. Bach's musical output into 3 periods: a Initial Plunge, a Soused Period of time, & Attrition.

When you took a Initial Plunge, P.D.Q. Bach wrote Traumarei for solo piano, an Echo Sonata for "two unfriendly groups of instruments", & the ''Gross Concerto for Divers' Flutes, ii Trump, & Strings.

In a Cycle of the Soused Period, P.D.Q. Bach wrote the Concerto for Horn & Hardart, a Sinfonia Concertante, a Pervertimento, a Serenude, a Perückenstück, a Suite from The Civilian Barber, a Schleptet in E-flat major, the half-act opera The Stoned Guest, a Concerto for Piano vs. Orchestra, Erotica Variations, Hansel & Gretel & Ted and Alice (an opera in 1 monstrous work), A Art of the GSpherical Round, the Concerto for Bassoon vs. Orchestra, & the Gr& Serenade for an Nasty Lot of Winds and Percussion.

In a period of the Attrition, P.D.Q. Bach wrote a oratorio Iphigenia inside Brooklyn, a cantata A Seasonings, Diverse Ayres in Sundrie Notions, the Sonata for Viola for 4 Mitts, a chorale prelude Should, a Notebook for Betty Sue Bach, the Toot Suite, a Grossest Fugue, the Fanfare for the Most common Cold, a canine oratorio Wachet Arf!

Albums
Peter Schickele Presents An Evening by having P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)? (Vanguard Records, 1965) An Hysterical Go to: P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard Records, 1966) Report From either Hoople: P.D.Q. Bach On The Air (Vanguard Records, 1967) A Hopped-up Guest (Vanguard Records, 1970) A Intimate P.D.Q. Bach (Vanguard Records, 1974) Portrait of P.D.Q. Bach (Vanguard Records, 1977) Schwarzwald Bluegrass (Vanguard Records, 1979) Liebeslieder Polkas (Vanguard Records, 1980) Music Your computers family Can’t Become Away from Your Head (Vanguard Records, 1982) A bit Nightmare Music (Vanguard Records, 1983) 1712 Overture & More Musical theater Assaults (Telarc, 1989) Oedipus Tex & More Choral Cataclysm (Telarc, 1990) WTWP Authoritative Talkity-Talk Radio (Telarc, 1991) Music For An Nasty Lot Of Winds & Percussion (Telarc, 1992) Both Pianos Come Better Than Of these (Telarc, 1994) A Short-Tempered Clavier & more dysfunctional words for keyboard (Telarc, 1995)

Compilations
A Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach (Vanguard Records, 1978) A Dire P.D.Q. Bach Collection (Vanguard Records, 1996) A Ill-Misguided P.D.Q. Bach Anthology'' (Telarc, 1998)