Peter Schickele: Peter Schickele. Composer: Silent Running. Peter Schickele is a renowned American composer. Inspired by the music of Spike Jones, as a young teenager, he also studied composition and music history at Juilliard. After graduating from Juilliard he asked himself what in the world he was going to do with a PhD in music history, and proceeded to rewrite it (history, that is) by discovering works by Johann Sebastian Bach's heretofore...
Known For: Silent Running (Composer), The Abduction of Figaro by P.D.Q Bach (1807-1742)? (Composer(as P.D.Q. Bach, original music by)), Oh! Calcutta! (Music Department), Fantasia 2000 (Music Department(segment Pomp and Circumstance))