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The final and oddest of J.S. Bach’s 20-unusual kids, P.D.Q. Bach started his musical profession in obscurity and embarked upon an unsteady march into utter oblivion. He spent the majority of his adult lifestyle in the tiny German city of Wein-am-Rhein. It had been a village practically bereft of lifestyle, …

Peter Schickele, although an accomplished composer, musicologist, performer, and radio sponsor, is way better known for “discovering” the music functions of P.D.Q. Bach, the imaginary last and least child of J.S. Bach. Schickele was raised in an novice musical family members in Washington, D.C., and in Fargo, where he became …

Musical humorist Victor Borge was created Børge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen, Denmark about January 3, 1909; the child of the violinist within the Danish Symphony Orchestra, he started playing piano at age group three, and was quickly hailed as a kid prodigy. On scholarship or grant in the Royal Danish Music …