BIANCULLI: But Peter Schickele was best known for concocting, presenting and performing the works of P.D.Q. Bach, whom Schickele claimed was the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20-odd ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Schickele, whose comedic parodies of classical music overshadowed his own strengths as a serious composer, died Tuesday at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Schickele - Toronto Star via Getty Images Peter Schickele who has died aged 88, was better known as the fictional composer ...

When I first met Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of Israel’s 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, at the January 22, 2009 Salon De Virtuosi concert at the Hungarian ...

The solemn rituals that attend classical music have long made the genre an irresistible target for mockery, most of it obvious and crass. From time to time, though, a knowing insider produces a satire ...

Musical satire is about as scarce a commodity in the classical world these days as wit in Washington. As if to remind us that classical music needs to be periodically shaken out of its pious ...

How many Broadway shows has Peter Schickele been in? Peter Schickele has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Peter Schickele been in? Peter Schickele has not appeared in the ...

Peter Schickele's upcoming trip to Pennsylvania is a homecoming of sorts. In the 1960s, the Grammy-winning composer and infamous musical satirist received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, ...

Musical satirist Schickele calls his fictional alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach, “the last and by far the least” child of J.S. Bach. Can we talk about P.D.Q. Bach as fictional or must we pretend he’s real? “I ...