P. D. Q. Bach

P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742?) is the pseudonym under which Professor Peter Schickele has written a substantial body of satirical music, recorded on nearly twenty compact discs on the Vanguard and Telarc labels. The music combines takeoffs on musicological scholarship, the conventions of Baroque and Classical music, and a certain amount of slapstick comedy.

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Schickele has written a fictional life story for P.D.Q. Bach, in the book The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (1976; New York: Random House; ISBN 0394734092). According to this biography:

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:P.D.Q. Bach was born in Leipzig on April 1, 1742 http://www.schickele.com/pdqbio.htm, the son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena Bach. According to Schickele, Bach's parents did not bother to give their youngest son a real name, and settled on "P.D.Q" instead. (In vernacular English, "P.D.Q." stands for "pretty damn quick".) Johann Sebastian did not give any musical training to P.D.Q. After his death, the only earthly possession Johann Sebastian Bach willed to his son was a kazoo.

Peter Schickele: Peter Schickele (born July 17, 1935) is a composer and musical parodist. He was born in Ames, Iowa, USA, and graduated with a degree in music from Swarthmore College in 1957. He graduated from the Juilliard School with an M.S. in musical composition....

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