Schickele, Peter

Peter Schickele,
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Name	Schickele, Peter Gender: M
Birthname	Johann Peter Schickele
born on	17 July 1935 at 03:00 (= 03:00 AM )
Place	Ames, Iowa, 42n02, 93w37
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: CAH
Astrology data	23°51' 09°55 Asc. 28°46'

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Peter Schickele (2010)
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Biography

American composer, musician, musical educator and parodist. In a long and active career he wrote and arranged for classical, jazz, rock, and folk ensembles, providing music for concerts, films, television, radio, and the stage. He became wildly successful as his alter-ego, Professor Schickele, who convulsed audiences for over three decades with mock productions of 28th century baroque music, mostly by "P. D. Q. Bach." From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P. D. Q. Bach recordings earned him four consecutive wins for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

A Professor of Music at the University of Southern North Dakota, Schickele introduced his inventive composer in 1965, reputedly "the last and least of the many children of Johann Sebastian Bach." The works included, over the years, an opera, The Abduction of Figaro, and early attempts as stylistic fusions such as the bluegrass cantata Blaues Grass, Grune Himmel. It also required the development of instruments such as the left-handed sewer flute, the slide music stand, the windbreaker and more.

Over the years, the works of P.D.Q. Bach were performed by many of the world’s greatest orchestras, often with hilarious results if not uproarious eruptions of joy from the audience. Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile and imaginative creative artists in the musical world. Over a hundred works are available for symphony orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles, voice, movies, and television, giving him a respectable voice in the annals of American music. He toured with a program of original songs, singing some of his works with the poetry written by his wife, Susan Sindall. Annually, he gave an all-Schickele chamber music concert in New York. As a recording artist, he released some dozen LPs and innumerable scores and as a performing artist, his appearances sold-out rapidly. Called "the greatest comedy-in-music act before the public today," Schickele reaped Grammys and other awards for his satire and musicology.

Born in Iowa, Peter was the son of an agricultural economist father and a physicist mother with one younger brother (who became a filmmaker). He was raised in Washington DC and Fargo, North Dakota (where he was Fargo’s only bassoonist) and he graduated from Swarthmore in 1957 as the only music major. He was interested in theatre from the time he was a kid and already writing prolifically. He studied composition and under a Ford grant, composed music for high schools in Los Angeles before returning to teach at Juilliard in 1961.

The official debut of Bach burst upon the world at large in April 1965 at New York’s Town Hall. He also composed film scores for features and documentaries, music and lyrics for stage shows and arrangements for varied folk singers.

Schickele and his wife Susan lived in New York City and he concentrated on his composing in an upstate hideaway. With his son and his daughter, he played in an alternative rock band called "Beekeeper." Peter Schickele died at his home in Bearsville, New York on 16 January 2024 at the age of 88.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Glass, Philip (born 31 January 1937). Notes: Juilliard classmates

• child->parent relationship with Schickele, Rainer (born 22 July 1905)

• sibling relationship with Schickele, David (born 20 March 1937)

• other kin relationship with Schickele, René (born 4 August 1883). Notes: Grandkin

• (has as) teacher relationship with Persichetti, Vincent (born 6 June 1915)

• compare to chart of Bach, Johann Sebastian (born 21 March 1685 Jul.Cal. (31 Mar 1685 greg.))

Events

• Social : End a program of study 1957 (Music major, Swathmore)

• Social : Begin a program of study 1961 (Began at Julliard)

• Relationship : Marriage 27 October 1962 (Susan Sindall)
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• Work : New Career 1965 (Started composing)

• Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released April 1965 (First Bach production)
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• Death, Cause unspecified 16 January 2024 (Age 88)
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Source Notes

Contemporary American Horoscopes.

(In May 2021 Sy Scholfield provided the birth certificate, copy on file, and upgraded rating to "BC/BR in hand").

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (BM, MM)

• Traits : Personality : Hard worker

• Family : Childhood : Family noted

• Family : Childhood : Order of birth (First of two boys)

• Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (Susan Sindall, poet)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (One son and one daughter)

• Lifestyle : Work : Same Job more than 10 yrs (Music from 1965)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 88)

• Vocation : Education : Teacher (Professor of Music)

• Vocation : Entertainment : Radio/ D.J./ Announcer (Host of "Schickele Mix")

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Composer/ Arranger

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Group/ Duo (P.D.Q. Bach, Beekeeper)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist (Harpsicord)

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Music teacher

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer

• Vocation : Writers : Humor (Musical satirist comedy)

• Notable : Awards : Grammy (Numerous)

• Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession (Versatile and creative musician)

• Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection