| LC control no. | no2012121996 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bach, P. D. Q., 1742-1807 |
| Variant(s) | P.D.Q. Bach, 1742-1807 Bach, P. D. Q. (Composer) |
| See also | Real identity: Schickele, Peter |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0003 8279 0933 265810019 Q1190508 |
| Biography/History note | P.D.Q. Bach (1742-1807 or 1807-1742) is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist Peter Schickele. |
| Birth date | [1742-03-31,1742-04-01] |
| Death date | 1807-05-05 |
| Place of birth | Leipzig (Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Composers |
| Special note | Under AACR2 P. D. Q. Bach was considered not to be a pseudonym, but a character that Peter Schickele has created. In RDA, as a fictitious character, he is treated as a person entity. |
| Found in | P.D.Q. Bach in Houston, 2006 The definitive biography of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, 1976: page xiii (dates given on his tomb: 1807-1742) page 3 (born in Leipzig 31 March 1742) The Peter Schickele/P.D.Q. Bach web site, 11 September 2012 (P.D.Q. Bach was born on April 1, 1742 and died on May 5, 1807) Wikipedia, 11 September 2012 (P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele; born in Leipzig on March 31, 1742, the son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena Bach) New York times, 19 Jan. 2024: in a front page obituary (Peter Schickele; born Johann Peter Schickele on July 17, 1935 in Ames, Iowa, died Tuesday [Jan. 16, 2024] in Bearsville, N.Y., aged 88; an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and mercifully fictional P.D.Q. Bach; the precise origins of P.D.Q. Bach are shrouded in the mists of time, but he had his first conspicuous flowering in the late 1950s, during Mr. Schickele's Juilliard years; for more than a half-century, through live performances seemingly born of the marriage of Mozart, the Marx Brothers and Rube Goldberg, P.D.Q. Bach remained enduringly, fiendishly alive) |
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