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"Safe" Sextet (1)
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A Little Nightmare Music (1)
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Abduction of Figaro (1)
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Arie Proprio Zodicale, S 16 "Twelve Quite Heavenly Songs" (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb: Encore (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb: Golly golly oh (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb: Jane my Jane (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb: Loving is as easy (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb: Nelly is a nice girl (1)
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Art of the Ground Round for 3 Baritones & Discontinuo, S 1.19/lb: Please kind sir (1)
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Bach Portrait (1)
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Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata) (1)
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Canzon per Sonar a Sei-Count Them-Sei (1)
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Canzonetta "La Hooplina" (1)
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Capriccio La Pucelle de New Orleans (1)
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Civilian Barber: Perückenstück (1)
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Civilian Barber: Suite (1)
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Concerto for 2 Pianos versus Orchestra (S. 2 are better than one) (1)
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Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S 27 (3)
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Consort of Choral Christmas Carols, S 359 (1)
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Contrary Dances (6), S 39 (1)
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Dutch Suite for Bassoon and Tuba, S-16 (1)
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Echo Sonata for 2 Unfriendly Groups of Instruments (3)
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Eine kleine Nichtmusik (1)
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Einstein on the Fritz: Prelude (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Piano, S 36EE: Theme, Windbreaker (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Piano, S 36EE: Variation no 1, Balloons (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Piano, S 36EE: Variation no 2, Slide Whistle (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Piano, S 36EE: Variation no 3, Slide Windbreaker (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Piano, S 36EE: Variation no 4, Lasso d'Amore (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Piano, S 36EE: Variation no 5, Foghorn, Bell, Kazoo, G (1)
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Erotica Variations for banned Instruments and Pno, S 36EE (1)
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Four Folk Song Upsettings (1)
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Four Next-to-Last Songs (1)
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Grand Serenade for an awful lot of Winds and Percussion S 1000: Rondo (1)
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Grand Serenade for an awful lot of Winds and Percussion, S 1000 (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1 (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Do you love me? (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Et expecto (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: I hope you take this friendly advice (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: I'm a quaint old innkeeper (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: I'm the village idiot (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Interlude, "Medical examination" (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Jump not to conclusions (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Like a lonely pilgrim (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: My name is Hansel Hunter (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Overture (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Teddy Nice is my name (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: Tell me what your name is (1)
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Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, S 2n-1: There's something about a monk (1)
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Hear me through, S 99 44/100 (1)
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Hound Dog (1)
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Iphigenia in Brooklyn, S 53162 (4)
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Liebeslieder Polkas (10) for Cho and Piano 5 Hands, S 2/4 (1)
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Lip My Reeds (1)
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Long Live the King, S 1789 (1)
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Love Me (1)
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March of the cute little wood sprites (1)
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Minuet Militaire (2)
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Missa Hilarious, S 20 (1)
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New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (3)
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No-No Nonette for assorted Winds and Toys S 86 (1)
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O Serpent (1)
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Octoot for Wind Instruments, S 8 (1)
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Oedipus Tex: Howdy there (1)
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Overture 1712 (1)
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Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S 66 (1)
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Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S 66: 1st movement, Allegro moulto (1)
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Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S 66: 2nd movement, Romanze no 2 "Adagio Sereno" (1)
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Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S 66: 3rd movement, Minaret & Trio (1)
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Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S 66: 4th movement, Romanze no 1 "Chi Largo" (1)
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Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, S 66: 5th movement, Presto changio (1)
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Quartet for Bassoon "Lip my reeds" (1)
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Quartet for Strings in F major "The Moose" (1)
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Quodlibet for Small Orchestra (1)
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Royal Firewater Musick (1)
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Sam and Janet (1)
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Schleptet in E flat major, S 0 (2)
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Schleptet in E flat major, S 0: 1st movement, Larghissimo-Allegro boffo (1)
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Schleptet in E flat major, S 0: 2nd movement, Menuetto con brio ma senza trio (1)
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Schleptet in E flat major, S 0: 3rd movement, Adagio Saccharino (1)
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Schleptet in E flat major, S 0: 4th movement, Yedhui Menuetto (1)
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Schleptet in E flat major, S 0: 5th movement, Presto Hey Nonny Nonnio (1)
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Sinfonia Concertante, S 98.6 (1)
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Sinfonia Concertante, S 98.6: 1st movement, Sehr unruhig mit schmalz (1)
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Sinfonia Concertante, S 98.6: 2nd movement, Andante senza moto (1)
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Sinfonia Concertante, S 98.6: 3rd movement, Presto nicht schleppend (1)
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Sonata da circo (1)
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Symphony in D major "Howdy" (1)
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The "Sanka" Cantata (1)
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The little pickle book (1)
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The Mule (1)
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The Musical Sacrifice (S. 50% off) (1)
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The Preachers of Crimetheus (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp (3)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: And there were in the same country (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Bide thy thyme (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: By the leeks of Babylon (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Fugue for orchestra (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Open sesame seeds (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: So Saying (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Summer is a cumin seed (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Tarragon of virtue is full (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Then asked he (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: Then she gave in (1)
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The Seasonings, S 1/2 tsp: To curry favor, favor curry (1)
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The short-tempered clavier (1)
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The Stoned Guest (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Boy! (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Don Octave (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Excerpt(s) (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Gesundheit! (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Hark! (1)
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The Stoned Guest: I hate to interupt (1)
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The Stoned Guest: I'm sure I'd be (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Let's face it, I'm lost (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Look at me (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Now is the season (1)
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The Stoned Guest: O saviour (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Overture (1)
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The Stoned Guest: That's the end (1)
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The Stoned Guest: Woe (1)
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Three Chorale-based piecelets (1)
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Toot Suite, S 212: The OK Chorale (2)
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Toot Suite, S 3.14: Fugue in C minor "Fuga vulgaris" (3)
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Traumarai for unaccompanied Piano (1)
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Traumarai for unaccompanied Pno (1)
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Trio (sic) Sonata (S. 3(4)) (1)
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Triumphs of Thusnelda, S 1601: My Bonnie lass she smelleth (3)
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Triumphs of Thusnelda, S 1601: The Queen to me a royal pain doth give (2)
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Unbegun Symphony (3)
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Unbegun Symphony: 3rd movement, Minuet (1)
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Unbegun Symphony: 4th movement, Andante-Allegro (1)
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What's My Melodic Line? (3)
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Biography |
by James Reel
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The last and oddest of J.S. Bach's 20-odd children, P.D.Q. Bach began his musical career in obscurity and embarked upon an unsteady march into utter oblivion. He spent most of his adult life in the small German town of Wein-am-Rhein. It was a village virtually bereft of culture, a situation that was not improved by P.D.Q. Bach's presence. The composer did occasionally encounter and steal ideas from local folk groups, such as Tommy Mann and his Magic Mountain Boys, for whom he wrote his Bluegrass Cantata.
About 150 years after his demise, American composer and prankster Peter Schickele discovered the manuscript of P.D.Q. Bach's Sanka Cantata being used as a coffee filter, and thereupon devoted his primary energies to disinterring other scores. Since 1965 he has recorded and performed them with orchestras of less than impeccable standards. P.D.Q. Bach's unnaturally large and perhaps artificially enhanced catalog includes works for such unusual instruments as windbreaker and bicycle, although the compositions that have come to light in the past few decades have featured more traditional ensembles.
P.D.Q. Bach was discouraged from following in his father's and elder brothers' footsteps, although as a teenager he was apprenticed for a time to the inventor of the musical saw. He didn't begin writing music himself until 1770, and perhaps because of this late start he became what Schickele calls a "manic plagiarist." Not only did he steal tunes from his contemporaries and earlier composers, but he somehow anticipated melodies that would be written long after his death, including American pop and folk songs.
His career has been divided into three periods. The first, called Initial Plunge, produced such works as the Echo Sonata for two unfriendly groups of instruments and the Gross Concerto. The Soused Period, which accounts for the bulk of P.D.Q. Bach's career, saw the creation of the Concerto for horn and hardart, the Pervertimento, and Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, an opera in one unnatural act. Finally came Contrition, a brief era that saw the composition of the cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn and the Sonata for viola, four-hands. His catalog also includes such substantial works as the dramatic oratorio Oedipus Tex, the Royal Firewater Musick, the opera Einstein on the Fritz (of which only the annoyingly repetitive prelude survives), and the 1712 Overture, which anticipates some of the worst mannerisms of Tchaikovsky while showing no evidence of the later Russian composer's melodic gift. |
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