Schickele was born in Ames, Iowa, to Alsatian immigrant parents, and brought up in Washington, D. C., and Fargo, North Dakota, where he studied composition with Sigvald Thompson.

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.

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.

Composers who have written works for the Chestnut Brass Company, or have been commissioned by the Chestnut Brass Company, include Jan Krzywicki, Pulizter Prize winning composer Richard Wernick, Lois V. Vierk, Peter Schickele, George Hitt, Eric Stokes, Theodore Antoniou, Lawrence Siegel, and Paul Basler.

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.

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.

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

Der Sturm published poetry and prose from contributors such as Peter Altenberg, Max Brod, Richard Dehmel, Alfred Döblin, Anatole France, Knut Hamsun, Arno Holz, Karl Kraus, Selma Lagerlöf, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Paul Scheerbart, and René Schickele, and writings, drawings, and prints by such artists as Kokoschka, Kandinsky, and members of Der blaue Reiter.

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.

Bach albums are satires created by musicologist Peter Schickele ).

* Parodies by Peter Schickele:

* " 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.

* Concerto for Horn and Hardart is a classical music parody written by Peter Schickele, one of many which he attributes to the fictional composer P. D. Q.

Bach ( Peter Schickele ) and performed by the Swarthmore College Chorus in 1980.

It contains two songs written by Schickele and Diane Lampert — " Silent Running " and " Rejoice in the Sun " — which were performed by popular folk singer-songwriter Joan Baez.

* P. D. Q. Bach, fictional composer and son of Johann Sebastian Bach, invented by musical satirist " Professor " Peter Schickele

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.

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 Chestnut Brass Company & Peter Schickele for Schickele: Hornsmoke ( Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major " Ole "); Brass Calendar ; Hornsmoke-A Horse Opera

** The Chestnut Brass Company & Peter Schickele for Schickele: Hornsmoke ( Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major " Ole "; Brass Calendar ; Hornsmoke-A Horse Opera

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.

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.

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

Schickele regularly tours, and has recorded on the Vanguard and Telarc labels.

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

* Peter Schickele, Sonata Abassoonata, S. 888 ( 1996 ) Schickele's program notes state that " the bassoonist plays both the bassoon and piano parts simultaneously ... the pianist ... runs on only in time to play the last two measures "

* Peter Schickele on the history of the patter song

This one focused on the various " love songs " Baez had recorded during her Vanguard years, including traditional and contemporary work, as well as an arrangement of E. E. Cummings ' " All in Green My Love Went Riding " by Peter Schickele.

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.

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.