Klarinet Archive - Posting 000734.txt from 1999/07

From: Jack Kissinger <kissingerjn@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] J.S. Bach band arrangement?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 07:55:48 -0400

Andy wrote:

> Hello all, at a recent all-county festival, I played a band arrangement of a
> Bach piece called "Come Sweet Death".... (snip) Come to think of it, the
> piece could have been by C.P.E. Bach, I dont know.

To which Carl Schexnayder replied:

> The German Title is : "Komm Susser Todd". Though clever, music by PDQ Bach
> is never beautiful! PDQ Bach is a pen name for Peter (Schikele, sp?), and
> all of those works are examples of poor compositional techniques, and are
> meant to be hilariously funny.
>

If I remember my college German, it would have to be "Komm Susser Tod." Perhaps
you are confusing this piece with "Komm Sweeney Todd" (and its sequel "Todd and
Transfiguration") which should have been written by P.D.Q. Also, according to
Professor Schickele, P.D.Q. is not C.P.E. but is, in "fact," his younger
brother. It is rumored, that C.P.E. did indeed write some beautiful music
(though no one seems to remember what it was).

Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
St. Louis

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