Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

What little-known son of a famous genius has been called:A musical blightA one-man plagueHistory's most justifiably neglected composerThe worst musician ever to trod organ pedals A pimple on the face of musicIn 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.