Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach by Peter Schickele

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Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

by Peter Schickele

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The more you know about classical music, the funnier this is, but Schickele's humor appeals to everyone. I really like the photos of the college "campus". (

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nevusmom | Jun 4, 2007 |

Droll musical humor by fellow Swarthmore alum. (

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wfzimmerman | May 9, 2007 |

Thank god the university of northwest North Dakota at Hoople produced a scholar like Schickele who has taken us into the life of one of the oddest composers of our time! (Keep your German dictionary handy in case you don't speak the language, because you will miss some of the better jokes.) (

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Arctic-Stranger | Mar 13, 2007 |

Peter Schickele's character P.D.Q. Bach, the last of Johann Sebastian's twenty-odd children (also the oddest) truly takes on a life of his own in the send-up of musical biography. Puns abound. Visual jokes lurk everywhere. The Bach cognoscenti can delight in this abundance of hidden refferences - some subtle, some not so much. (

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AlexTheHunn | Mar 4, 2006 |

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1976

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P. D. Q. Bach

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The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394734092, Paperback)

What little-known son of a famous genius has been called:

"A musical blight"

"A one-man plague"

"History's most justifiably neglected composer"

"The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"

In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual -- to put it kindly -- composer in the history of music: P.D.Q. Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400)

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