At age 18, after listening to J.S. Bach's Coffee cantata, Peter Schickele wrote a goofball instant parody: the Sanka cantata. He attributed it to P.D.Q. Bach, "the last and least" of J.S. Bach's ...

Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, N.Y. at 88. His daughter confirmed the death ...

PETER SCHICKELE: Well, hello there, everybody. This is your friendly professor, Peter Schickele. BIANCULLI: The composer, musician, author and comedian Peter Schickele died last week. He was 88 years ...

It always begins the same way: This pudgy, disheveled, gray-bearded, middle-aged man dressed in ill-fitting formal-wear, shirt-tails hanging out, bursts onto the concert stage by sliding down a rope, ...

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P.D.Q. Bach, according to Professor Peter Schickele, was the “last but not least” child, the 21st child, of J.S. Bach. The works, unearthed at various unlikely spots in Europe, were found by Schickele ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Musical Humorist Peter Schickele will perform ...

Without P.D.Q. Bach — “the last and least of J. S. Bach’s 20-odd children” — Peter Schickele thought he’d have an easy year. It hasn’t worked out that way for the 56-year-old Schickele — the creator ...

The 300th anniversary of Bach`s birth is a cultural landmark, a moment in the passage of time in which musicians, philosophers and historians pause to weigh the impact of the man and his music. And ...