Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

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.Author: Peter SchickelePublisher: Random HousePublished: 08/12/1977Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.20w x 0.65dISBN: 9780394734095About the AuthorPeter Schickele is a composer, musician, and author. He studied at Swarthmore and Julliard. Over the course of his career, he has composed more than 100 works, varying from symphonies to film and television scores. His published wor