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 3 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 |
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| II. Diaries | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| IV. Reminiscences of Rikki | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Epilogue (July) | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Invocation | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Whirlwind Waltz | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Mary, Queen of Scots, on Her Execution [Annotation by Robert Southwell] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. The City of Our God [Text by Lionel Johnson] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Charity | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| IV. Kin | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| VI. Finale | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Love's Matrimony | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| Sudden Light | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 6. Darlin' Corey | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 7. Ruby | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Lullaby | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Lines and Choruses | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Song for Bert | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Song for Lannatch | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Dulcimer Tune | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 4. Strut | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Dance | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| III. Night Song | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| IV. Trance | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I. "First we had a parade" | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. "After lunch Jeffey's mom made us take a nap" | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| III. "Then we did a carnival with a haunted house and dancing bears." | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| I. Dear, If You Change | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| II. Fain Would I Change That Note | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Refrain | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 1. Three-Legged March | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 5. Game | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 6. City Song | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. The Lowest Trees Have Tops [Text by Sir Edward Dyer] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Hot Sun, Cool Fire (Soprano, Viola) [Text by George Peele] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 6. To Meadows (Soprano, Flute) [Text by Robert Herrick] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 9. To Death [Text by Robert Herrick] | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 5 | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 1. Fire | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 3. Water | See work details |
| View sheet music |
| 2. Would I Might Go Far Over Sea [Text by Marie De France, Translated by Andrew Lang] | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 3. The Posy Ring [Text by Clement Marot, Translated by Clement Marot] | See work details |
1 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 1. Cha Cha Cha Boomdeeay | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 2. North Star | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 3. For Charlie the Parrot | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 5. Sore in the Saddle Again | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 6. Greased Lightning | See work details |
5 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| 7. Mink Hollow Morning | See work details |
4 more instruments
| View sheet music |
| Mink hallow morning | See work details |
4 more instruments
| 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.