As a musical educator he also hosted the classical music educational radio program Schickele Mix which was broadcast on many public radio stations in the United States.

Schickele was commissioned to " discover " this opera by the Minnesota Opera, where the piece premiered on April 27 and 28, 1984.

In a running gag in Concerto for Horn and Hardart and in the introduction to Six Contrary Dances on his Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion album, Schickele inferred from fictional evidence that P. D. Q. Bach had a hollow leg that was considerably longer than the other one.

The tromboon was developed by Peter Schickele, a skilled bassoonist himself, and featured in some of his live concert and recorded performances.

" P. D. Q. Bach & Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour " was performed with piano accompaniment, and includes Four Next-to-Last Songs, Shepherd on the Rocks, With a Twist, and excerpts from Little Notebook for " Piggy " Bach.

Schickele gives a tongue-in-cheek explanation of the instrument's evolution: Viennese cowboys twirled " their lariats over their heads with such great speed that a musical pitch was produced.

The soundtrack was written by bassoonist and P. D. Q. Bach creator Peter Schickele.

A third to half the space in the early years of transition was given to translations, some of which done by Maria McDonald Jolas ; French writers included: André Breton, André Gide and the Peruvian Victor Llona ; German and Austrian poets and writers included Hugo Ball, Carl Einstein, Yvan Goll, Rainer Maria Rilke, René Schickele, August Stramm, Georg Trakl ; Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Yiddish, and Native American texts were also translated.

An updated version of the film was later released in 1988, with new music and narration by Peter Schickele.

The composition was lampooned by Peter Schickele (" P. D. Q. Bach ") in his piece Bach Portrait on the album 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults.

Karla Schickele was a founding member of the band Beekeeper from New York City, along with her brother, guitarist and composer Matthew Schickele, and drummer Jan Kotik.

Johann Peter Schickele ( born July 17, 1935 ) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring music written by Schickele, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach.

According to Schickele, Bach's parents did not bother to give their youngest son a real name, and settled on " P. D.

The Society has collaborated with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Chamber Symphony, Peter Schickele, pianist and scholar Robert Levin, Chanticleer, Dave Brubeck, and the King's Singers.

This musical work, while touted as " P. D. Q. Bach's Half-Act Opera: The Stoned Guest ," is actually the work of Peter Schickele.

The Abduction of Figaro is a comic opera, described as " A Simply Grand Opera by P. D. Q. Bach ," which is actually the work of composer Peter Schickele.

* Iphigenia in Brooklyn, a solo cantata by Peter Schickele under the guise of P. D. Q. Bach.

Among his pupils were William Schuman, H. Owen Reed, John Donald Robb, Robert Turner, Lorne Betts, George Lynn, John Verrall, and Peter Schickele ( best known as the creator of P. D. Q.

** Peter Schickele for P. D. Q.

** Peter Schickele for P. D. Q.

** Peter Schickele for P. D. Q.

** Peter Schickele for P. D. Q.

Professor Peter Schickele, in his satirical " study " of the life of the fictitious P. D. Q.

Professor Peter Schickele, in comparing his alter ego, the fictitious composer P. D. Q. Bach, to Johann Sebastian's other sons, said that P. D. Q.

* " Classical Rap " – This parody by Peter Schickele, on his album P. D. Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex & Other Choral Calamities, describes the travails of living on the Upper West Side, as a Yuppie chants hip-hop lyrics to a classical instrumental background.

P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist " Professor " Peter Schickele.

In preconcert lectures, Schickele joked that P. D. Q. Bach influenced Beethoven's famous deafness: Beethoven came to dread P. D. Q. Bach and his music so greatly that Beethoven resorted to stuffing coffee grounds into his ears whenever he saw P. D. Q. Bach coming.

Schickele describes P. D. Q. Bach as having " the originality of Johann Christian, the arrogance of Carl Philipp Emanuel, and the obscurity of Johann Christoph Friedrich.

" The most distinguishing feature of P. D. Q. Bach's music, in the words of Schickele, is " manic plagiarism ".

The " Schickele " or " S ." numbers whimsically assigned to P. D. Q. Bach's works parody musicologists ' catalogues of famous composers, such as the Köchel catalogue of Mozart's works.

Schickele divides P. D. Q. Bach's fictional musical output into three periods: the Initial Plunge, the Soused Period, and Contrition.

Schickele has composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, film ( e. g. Silent Running, and animated adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen ), and television.

Schickele is active on the international and North American concert circuit.

During this period, in late 1971, she reunited with Schickele to record two tracks, " Rejoice in the Sun " and " Silent Running " for the science-fiction film, Silent Running.

Hoople is probably best known outside North Dakota as the location of University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, the fictional university created by Peter Schickele.

On several recordings Schickele states that he is a professor at the fictitious University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

In 1947, William Schuman extended an offer of professorship at Juilliard, where his students included Einojuhani Rautavaara, Leonardo Balada, Steven Gellman, Peter Schickele ( P. D. Q.

Schickele gives a humorous fictional biography of the composer with facts such as the following:

* Peter Schickele ( aka P. D. Q. Bach ), wrote an alternate, comedic text for the score entitled Sneaky Pete and the Wolf, converting the story into a Western, including a showdown between Sneaky Pete and the gunslinger El Lobo ( which never happens due to some local boys giving El Lobo a hotfoot and sticking a paper airplane in his eye and Sneaky Pete's girlfriend Laura rendering El Lobo unconscious with a vacuum cleaner ).

Peter Schickele worked with Levine on the musical arrangement of each musical piece.

At Swarthmore Van de Kamp performed with Peter Schickele, a. k. a. P. D. Q. Bach, and made several films of Schickele's student performance, while on the occasion of his 70th birthday Schickele wrote a piano piece for him called The Easy Goin ' P. v. d. K. Ever Lovin ' Rag.

Peter Schickele has described the tonette as " a cheap, synthetic recorder with amusing pretensions "; it is one of the instruments featured in the Gross Concerto by P. D. Q. Bach.

Having exhausted the standard voice / guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with composer Peter Schickele ( with whom she'd worked on the 1966 Christmas album, Noël ), on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-current pop and rock and roll songs.

Ruth Keating drummer and multi instrumentalist, along with Karla Schickele, is a founding member of The Willie Mae Rock and Roll Camp For Girls.