He earned his fifth Grammy, for finest classical crossover album, for “Hornsmoke,” which incorporates his severe compositions “Horse Opera for Brass Quintet,” Piano Concerto No. 2 and different items.
Mr. Schickele’s classical recordings additionally embrace Quartet No. 1, “American Dreams,” by the Audubon Quartet; “Schickele on a Lark,” by the Lark Quartet; and “The American Chamber Ensemble Plays Peter Schickele.”
He wrote the rating for the 1972 science-fiction movie “Silent Running,” starring Bruce Dern. With Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden, he additionally contributed songs to the Broadway revue “Oh! Calcutta!”
Mr. Schickele and his spouse, who survives him, break up their time between properties on the Higher West Facet of Manhattan and in Bearsville. Along with her and their daughter, Karla, he’s survived by a son, Matthew, and two grandsons.
Within the early Nineteen Nineties, Mr. Schickele, weary of the street and likewise, ever so barely, of P.D.Q. Bach, took a protracted sabbatical, specializing in his new radio present, “Schickele Mix.” Syndicated nationally for some 15 years, it featured him in severe discussions of music, mixed with the enjoying of works by composers as numerous as Chopin, Gershwin and Philip Glass.
Within the twenty first century, with the radio present having run its course, Mr. Schickele revived P.D.Q. In 2015, he held a gala Fiftieth-anniversary live performance in City Corridor.
