Juilliard School

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Peter Schickele is acknowledged as the foremost classical music satirist of all time. He is the sole discoverer of work by the mythical Baroque composer P.D.Q Bach (1807-1742), the “pimple on the face of music” who has earned legions of fans across generations and continents. | In 1954, a young scholar named Professor Peter Schickele, rummaging around a Bavarian castle in search of rare musical gems, happened instead upon a piece of manuscript being employed as a strainer in the caretaker’s percolator. This turned out to be the Sanka Cantata by a then-unknown composer named P.D.Q. Bach . A cursory examination of the music immediately revealed the reason for the atrocious taste of the coffee. When the work was finally performed, the Professor realized too late that he had released a monster on the musical world. Professor Schickele pursued his research into the life and work of P.D.Q. Bach from his academic base, the Department of Musical Pathology at the University

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