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
Sheet music catalogue page 2 of 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. Square Dance | See work details |
3 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 1. Dance of Uncertain National Origin | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I. Grant This to Me | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| V. Agnus Dei | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Domenico Scarlatti | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Prelude | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Ragtempus Fugit | See work details | See edition details | View sheet music |
| Cadenza (March) | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Before My Lady's Window Gay [Text by Anonymous, Translated by John A. Symonds] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Most Glorious Lord of Life [Text by Edmund Spenser] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Taxes | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| V. Company at the Bar | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Oh, Death | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Go Tell Aunt Rhody | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5. There Is a Happy Land | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Aubade | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Ceremony | See work details |
1 more instruments
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| V. | See work details |
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| VI. | See work details |
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| 6. Fanfare | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 7. Dusk Song | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I. Morning Song | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Cantilena | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 3. Walking Piece | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 7. River | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 5. Noon Song | See work details |
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| 2 | See work details |
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| 4 | See work details |
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| 2. Earth | See work details |
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| 4. Air | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Dusk on the Palisades | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Sweet Steve and Jean | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 1. For Fretta | See work details |
2 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 3. For Susan | See work details |
2 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 5. Traveling Music | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Billiards | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Bossa Nova | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5. Gigue | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Bassooner or Later | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Games | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Courtship | See work details |
3 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 7. Introduction and Tango | See work details |
3 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 8. August: Dude Ranch Vacation | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 9. September: Labor Day Weekend Dance | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Michael Praetorius | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 6. Berceuse | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Riff | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Rumba | 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.