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The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach
Written by Peter Schickele
Narrated by Peter Schickele
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Professor Peter Schickele's account of the life of little-known composer P.D.Q. Bach.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Peter Schickele's character P.D.Q. Bach, the last of Johann Sebastian's twenty-odd children (also the oddest) truly takes on a life of his own in the send-up of musical biography. Puns abound. Visual jokes lurk everywhere. The Bach cognoscenti can delight in this abundance of hidden refferences - some subtle, some not so much.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thank god the university of northwest North Dakota at Hoople produced a scholar like Schickele who has taken us into the life of one of the oddest composers of our time! (Keep your German dictionary handy in case you don't speak the language, because you will miss some of the better jokes.)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s a hoot. Still fun. We all need a laugh.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So funny!
Cool music
Thanks so much for originality and ingenuity
Best - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's amusing and really quite clever! The classical musician would get the more subtle jokes. But it's amusing for anyone.