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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July 17 - 1935 - Composer - Parodist - Ames, Iowa - USA - Swarthmore College - 1957 - Juilliard School - Musical composition

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He has created music for school bands, film (e.g. Silent Running) and television, choirs, folk singers (Joan Baez), musicals and concert performances. His musical creations have won him multiple awards. He is perhaps best known for his clever parodies of classical music, written under the name of P. D. Q. Bach, for which he has won four Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Performance/Album. He also hosted the radio program Schickele Mix which was broadcast on many public radio stations in the United States.

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Film - Silent Running - Television - Choir - Joan Baez - Classical music - P. D. Q. Bach - Grammy Award - Best Comedy Performance/Album - Radio - Schickele Mix - Public radio - United States

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Besides writing music, Schickele has invented instruments. The most complicated is the hardart, which consists of a variety of tone-generating devices mounted on the frame of an Automat (a coin-operated food dispenser). It is used in the Concerto for Horn and Hardart, a play on the name of proprietors Horn & Hardart, who pioneered the North American use of the Automat.

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Automat - Concerto for Horn and Hardart - Horn & Hardart - North America

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He also invented the dill piccolo (for playing sour notes), the left-handed sewer flute, the tromboon,

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Dill piccolo - Left-handed sewer flute - Tromboon - Lasso d'amore - Tuba mirum - Manicotti - Pasta - University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople - Fiction - Professor - Musicology - Pathology

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Schickele was also a member of the chamber rock trio Open Window, which wrote and performed music for the revue Oh! Calcutta!.

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Open Window - Oh! Calcutta!

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Peter Schickele's music is published by the Theodore Presser Company.

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Schickele's two children, Matt and Karla, have been members of various indie rock bands, including Beekeeper, Ida, and K.

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Indie rock - Ida

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