» EXPRESS: How did the idea for the festival come about? » SCHICKELE: Well, it was Leonard’s idea, actually. He’s got a great sense of humor, and for a well-known conductor, he’s unusually willing to ...

NOTE: Larry Murray reminisced with Professor Peter Schickele about the imaginary P.D.Q. Bach which you can read here. There is also a rare photo of the tromboon, part trombone, part bassoon which Bach ...

With apologies to the Terminator, Peter Schickele won’t be Bach. Not anymore, anyway. The name might not ring a bell – but it should at least play a kazoo or two. You see, Schickele was better known ...

Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88. His daughter confirmed the death ...

Composer and classical music parodist Peter Schickele, best known for having "discovered" the works of P.D.Q. Bach (a made-up son of Johann Sebastian), died January 16, 2024 at age 88. In this "CBS ...

PITTSFIELD -- Peter Schickele brings his "P.D.Q. Bach Jekyll and Hyde Tour" to the Colonial Theatre Tuesday evening at 7:30. "P.D.Q. Bach and Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour" is a two-faced ...

BIANCULLI: But Peter Schickele was best known for concocting, presenting and performing the works of P.D.Q. Bach, whom Schickele claimed was the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20-odd ...

At age 18, after listening to J.S. Bach's Coffee cantata, Peter Schickele wrote a goofball instant parody: the Sanka cantata. He attributed it to P.D.Q. Bach, "the last and least" of J.S. Bach's ...

Claiming to be a musicologist, the composer and arranger performed premieres of "newly unearthed" works by the nonexistent Bach. Schickele died... Remembering Peter Schickele, the satirical composer ...