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 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. In this long-awaited hoax, Schickele finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual composer in the history of music. In what is possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele (University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople) has carefully crafted this long-ovedue biography of history's most justifiably neglected composer, ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual 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 It was cold and dark and wet in Leipzig on the night of the 31st of March 1742.