Composer
Peter Schickele
American composer, musical educator, and parodist (1935-2024)
1935–2024
197 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1935
- Died
- 2024
- Birthplace
- Ames
- Place of death
- Bearsville
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Johann Peter Schickele (; July 17, 1935 – January 16, 2024) was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P. D. Q. Bach recordings earned him four consecutive wins for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- composer; musicologist; university teacher; film score composer; journalist; impressionist; writer; musician
- Education
- Juilliard School; Swarthmore College
- Career institutions / employers
- Juilliard School
- Instruments played
- bassoon
- Genres
- opera
- Official website
- https://www.schickele.com/
- Pseudonym
- P. D. Q. Bach
- VIAF ID
- 51879688
- ISNI
- 0000000117632045
- GND ID
- 103780777
- Library of Congress ID
- n80152931
- MusicBrainz ID
- 8d748f6a-e24c-49cf-b93a-93e9d2fa48b3
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Flute, Bassoon, Clarinet, Choir
- Genres represented
- Classical
- Source entries with composition dates
- 0
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
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Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
| Title | Work details | Listed instruments | Sheet music |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8. Evening Song (Viola Song) | See work details |
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| 4. My True-Love Hath My Heart (Soprano, Flute, Viola, Harp) [Text by Sir Philip Sidney] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Interlude | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 1. Spring [Text by Charles D'Orleans, Translated by Andrew Lang] | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 4. Song | See work details |
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| I | See work details |
3 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| IV | See work details |
2 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Second Sonata | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| V. Finale | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I. Variations | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| II. Pastorale; Toccata | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. Pastorale | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I. Prologue | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Love's Commission | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II | See work details |
2 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| First Sonata | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Third Sonata (The Sweet Season) | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Country Song | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 1. Morning Song (Flute Solo) | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3 | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Prologue | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. Minuet | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5. Polka | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Dreams | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. The Wedding | See work details |
3 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Now Neptune'S Sullen Month Appears (November) [Text by P.B. Shelley; Thomas Moore; William Cullen Bryant] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5. Finale | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Amazing Grace | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 8. When I Can Read My Title Clear | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Boogie | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Interlude: Glimpses | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| III | See work details |
2 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. Blues Etude | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Tango | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5. Hymn | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Pavane | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. Serenade | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 7. The Mad Maid's Song [Text by Robert Herrick] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Fantasia | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Rondo | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Waltz | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. Portlandia in Cerulean | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Gang of Wolves | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Songs and Dances | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I Prelude | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| III Pastorale | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Song, for Armen | See work details |
| View sheet music |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 51879688. Portrait: Peter Hummers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.