Editing Peter Schickele (section)

==Early life==
Peter Schickele was born on July 17, 1935, in [[Ames, Iowa]],<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news |last1=Fox |first1=Margalit |title=Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88 |work=The New York Times |date=January 17, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html |access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref><ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2202}}</ref> to [[Alsace|Alsatian]] immigrant parents. His father, Rainer Schickele (1905, [[Berlin]] – 1989, [[Berkeley, California]]), was the son of writer [[René Schickele]] and was an agricultural economist teaching at [[Iowa State University]].<ref name="library.ndsu.edu">{{cite web |url=http://library.ndsu.edu/repository/bitstream/handle/10365/322/Mss0224.pdf |title=Finding Aid to the Rainer Schickele Papers |publisher=North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies and University Archives |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304224635/http://library.ndsu.edu/repository/bitstream/handle/10365/322/Mss0224.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> 
In 1945, Schickele's father took a position at [[George Washington University]] in Washington, D.C., then became chairman of the Agricultural Sciences Department at North Dakota Agricultural College (now [[North Dakota State University]]) in [[Fargo, North Dakota]] in 1946.<ref name="library.ndsu.edu" />
[[File:Peter Schickele at Swarthmore.jpg|thumb|Schickele (rear) and others at Swarthmore College|right]]
In Fargo, the younger Schickele studied composition with Sigvald Thompson of the [[Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra]]. He graduated from Fargo Central High School in 1952, then attended [[Swarthmore College]], graduating in 1957 with a degree in music. He was the first student at Swarthmore to earn a music degree.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-22 |title=In Honor of Composer and Satirist Peter Schickele '57 H'80 |url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/honor-composer-and-satirist-peter-schickele-%E2%80%9957-h%E2%80%9980 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=www.swarthmore.edu |language=en}}</ref> He was a contemporary of [[Ted Nelson]] at Swarthmore, and he scored Nelson's experimental film ''The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow''. It was his first film score.<ref>{{YouTube|rFgul6rwNbQ|The Epiphany of Slocum Furlow}}</ref> He graduated from the [[Juilliard School]] in 1960<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cabaniss |first1=Thomas |title=Remembering Persichetti: A Centennial Panel and Concert |url=http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/1510/remembering-persichetti |website=The Juilliard Journal |access-date=March 1, 2020 |date=October 2015}}</ref> with a master's degree in musical composition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102026.html|title=Schickele Keeps the 'Serious Fun' Rolling With NSO|first=Robert|last=Battey|date=May 12, 2007|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> He studied composition with [[Roy Harris]] and [[Vincent Persichetti]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html|title=Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88|first=Margalit|last=Fox|work=The New York Times |date=January 17, 2024|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>