The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394734095 (0394734092)
Publish date: 1977-08-12
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
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