"and Lucy and Snoopy comes out of nowhere and starts dancing on the piano, until Schroeder and Lucy start looking at him angrily and Snoopy stops dancing and looks embarrassed. Frieda sometimes leans against Schroeder's piano, making Lucy jealous. She does not seem to be much of an annoyance to him as Lucy, but Schroeder prefers Lucy over her, possibly because Frieda has no knowledge of classical music at all (in ""Play It Again, Charlie Brown"" she thought Beethoven was a drink, causing Schroeder to pull the piano out from under both her and Lucy). The piano's capability is illustrated"
"leaving Schroeder horrified. In one strip (Feb. 1, 1969) it was revealed that Schroeder gets his pianos from the Ace Piano Company. This was also mentioned in an episode of ""The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show"". During the title sequence of ""The Peanuts Movie"", Schroeder plays the 20th Century Fox fanfare on his piano. It is also revealed that he keeps it in his desk at school. Schroeder (Peanuts) Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip ""Peanuts"", created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as"
"him. On June 1 of the same year, Charlie Brown stated that he felt like a father to Schroeder; in fact, for quite some time, he sometimes acted like a father to him, trying to teach him words and reading stories to him, and on September 24 of that year, he taught Schroeder how to play the piano, thus allowing Schroeder to become the prodigy he is known by ""Peanuts"" readers. Then on that year's October 10, he told Schroeder the story of Beethoven and set the piano player's obsession with the composer. Charlie Brown placed the Beethoven bust on"
"dogs, presumably Snoopy's Siblings; on another occasion he drives a Zamboni, and later does the Snoopy Dance when the giant tiger HOBS has died. Schroeder: Nearly identical to the classic character, this version is a man in his mid-to-late twenties and plays piano at a bar, and smokes. Like the classic version, he has no interest romantically in Lucy, though this time it is also because she is tied in with 'The Syndicate' the same mysterious group which heavily altered Weapon Brown into what he eventually became and which also altered Linus. He is the first character seen in the"
"his face on a bubblegum card, have you?"" In an early strip, Schroeder finds he has perfect pitch. Schroeder is usually depicted sitting at his toy piano, able to pound out multi-octave selections of music, despite the fact that such pianos have a very small range (for instance, and as a running joke, the black keys are merely painted onto the white keys). Charlie Brown tried to get him to play a real piano and young Schroeder burst into tears, intimidated by its size. Violet later attempts the same thing, but once again, Schroeder refuses. On another occasion, Charlie Brown"
"from the first special, except for Bill Melendez, also were replaced by someone else, leaving Bill Melendez the only original actor remaining until his death on September 2, 2008. However, recordings of his voice were used in later ""Peanuts"" animated media. This special was released on DVD for the first time, in remastered form as part of the DVD box set, ""Peanuts 1970's Collection, Volume One."" This special focuses on Lucy's infatuation with Schroeder, and her willingness to do anything to win his affections away from his unshakable devotion to classical music, particularly Beethoven. Frustrated in her repeated failures to"
"story about Beethoven's life. Charlie Brown was also the one that introduced Schroeder to the piano. For the most part, Charlie Brown and Schroeder were friends, with the exception of one argument from the mid-1950s (when the two had more of a rivalry going) where Charlie Brown insulted his ""yellow hair"" and ""plink, plink, plink all day long [on his piano]"" and Schroeder countered with a barb at Charlie's coonskin cap and ""round head."" Charlie Brown has Schroeder to serve as his catcher and, during conferences on the pitcher's mound, the two would engage in unusual conversations, mostly about Beethoven"
"Patty received support from national figure, Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip. He referenced her in a comic strip, and Patty is quoted in a recent spiritual biography of Schulz as having been touched by the gesture. Patty slowly rebuilt her career by expanding her musical appeal which included pop concert performances with symphony orchestras including the New York Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Pops, and the Dallas Symphony as well as headlining and hosting the Yuletide Celebration with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2000, 2002,"
"give it to the newest character. The origin of his name can be found in Schulz's 1975 book ""Peanuts Jubilee"": ""Schroeder was named after a young boy with whom I used to caddy at Highland Park golf course in St. Paul. I don't recall ever knowing his first name, but just 'Schroeder' seemed right for the character in the script, even before he became the great musician he now is."" From his first appearance at the piano on September 24, 1951, Schroeder has played classical pieces of virtuoso level, as depicted by Schulz's transcription of sheet music onto the panel"
"should be the same, rejecting Lucy's love interest in him. The closest Schroeder ever got to playing a real piano was playing his toy piano on the piano seat of one. Aside from Snoopy and Linus, Schroeder is Charlie Brown's closest friend. When Violet Gray gave Charlie Brown a used valentine, Schroeder stood up for him and said that he has feelings and that he deserves better. He seems to genuinely respect Charlie Brown, as both a friend and a baseball manager. Schroeder has short, blond hair and he almost always wears a striped shirt. He is the only boy"
"offends him about Beethoven not making it in Nashville and that he did not have the Nashville sound. Schroeder leaves feeling insulted by this. Lucy then yells out to him, ""He probably would not have made it in New Orleans, either!"" Lucy then takes out her radio and happily listens to rock and roll on Schroeder's piano as the credits roll. Play It Again, Charlie Brown Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip ""Peanuts,"" by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on March 28, 1971. This was the"
"Lucy van Pelt, who constantly leans on Schroeder's piano, much to Schroeder's annoyance. Charlie Brown, Frieda and Snoopy are also occasionally depicted as leaning on Schroeder's piano. After Linus and Snoopy, Schroeder is probably Charlie Brown's closest friend; he once angrily berated Violet for giving Charlie Brown a used valentine well after Valentine's Day had come and gone, only to be undercut when Charlie Brown eagerly accepted it. Schroeder also joined Linus in chastising the girls (Lucy, Patty, Violet and Frieda) and Snoopy in ""Charlie Brown's All-Stars"", when it was discovered Charlie Brown refused to remove the girls and Snoopy"
"honor. His only sister, Rosemarie von Studnitz, became a book publisher in the United States and died in 1975. In September 2003 the Dutch composer Rudi Martinus van Dijk had his work Kreitens Passion for baritone, full choir and symphony orchestra premiered in Düsseldorf by the Düsseldorf Symfoniker in memoriam of Karlrobert Kreiten. Karlrobert Kreiten Karlrobert Kreiten (26 June 1916, Bonn, Rhine Province - 7 September 1943) was a German pianist, though holding Dutch citizenship his entire life due to his Dutch father. He was seen by Wilhelm Furtwängler and others as one of the most talented young pianists in"
"when any character has successfully stood up to the notoriously aggressive Lucy. The musical notes Schroeder plays also seem to have substance; characters are able to touch them as they appear in the air. Snoopy, for example, once decorated a Christmas tree using a handful of them, and has on at least one occasion been seen dancing atop the musical staff containing them. He has also occasionally dumped a bucketful of them into the piano in order to change the tune Schroeder is playing. Also, twice while Schroeder was playing and the notes were above him, Lucy's head appeared between"
"general; his favorite artist in his later years was Andrew Wyeth. As a young adult, Schulz also developed a passion for classical music. Although the character Schroeder in ""Peanuts"" adored Beethoven, Schulz's personal favorite composer was reportedly Brahms. In July 1981, Schulz underwent heart bypass surgery. During his hospital stay, President Ronald Reagan phoned to wish him a quick recovery. In the 1980s, Schulz complained that ""sometimes my hand shakes so much I have to hold my wrist to draw."" This led to an erroneous impression that Schulz had Parkinson's disease. According to a letter from his physician, placed in"
"the brick wall. At some point in the strip, Linus begins to appear sitting behind Charlie Brown in school, despite being younger than Charlie Brown. During winter, they often play a game of building snow forts from which they throw snowballs at each other. Charlie Brown's best friend after Linus is Schroeder, and Charlie Brown is also one of the few people Schroeder will allow to lounge on his piano, as he and Charlie Brown are good friends, and knows that Charlie Brown respects his love of Beethoven. In fact, when they were younger, Charlie Brown would read Schroeder the"
"Schroeder pulls the piano out from under her, causing her to conk her head on the floor. This became a running gag in the strip's later years. In 1971's ""Play It Again, Charlie Brown"", Lucy asks if pianists make a lot of money, and Schroeder flies into a rage: ""Who cares about money?! This is art, you blockhead! This is great music I'm playing, and playing great music is an art! Do you hear me? An art! Art! Art! Art! Art! Art!"" (the last five words punctuated by slamming his hands against his piano). These instances mark the few occasions"
"He remembered his white hair, his ruddy cheeks, his stiff collar and funny bow tie. Fritz Kreisler was respectful towards him, and Percy Grainger deferred to him as a young artist might to an elder. Florence Hood gratefully remembered him, her first teacher. It seems somehow fitting that Mr. Schrader should have been leaving a concert when Death slipped an arm under his and led him away. A man who had devoted his life to music might well ask that the last evening of his life be spent in listening to music. Hermann was not the only child of Heinrich"
"(1990), listed below. Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder (1 September 1751 – 21 September 1812), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"" and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him ""one of the most talented theatre men of his era"". Schikaneder was born in Straubing in Bavaria to Joseph Schickeneder and Juliana Schiessl. Both of his parents worked as domestic servants and were extremely poor. They had a total of four children: Urban (born 1746), Johann Joseph"
"in 1965's ""A Charlie Brown Christmas"". Lucy asks Schroeder to play ""Jingle Bells"". Schroeder plays it in the style of a conventional piano, then manages to generate the warm tones of a Hammond organ, but Lucy cannot recognize the tune until the now-irritated Schroeder plays it, in a high register with one finger, in the tones of a normal toy piano. Until the France3 production, La bande de Snoopy, this was the only time in the history of the television specials that his toy piano ever actually sounded like a toy piano. In 1966's ""It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"","
"Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the ""Neue Sachlichkeit"" (new objectivity) style of music. Notable compositions include his song cycle ""Das Marienleben"" (1923), ""Der Schwanendreher"" for viola and orchestra (1935), and opera ""Mathis der Maler"" (1938). Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is likely the ""Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber"", written in 1943. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin"
"Eugene Schmitz Eugene Edward ""Handsome Gene"" Schmitz (August 22, 1864 – November 20, 1928) was an American musician and politician, the 26th mayor of San Francisco (1902-7), who was in office during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and became notorious for his conviction by a jury on charges of corruption. Born in San Francisco, Schmitz was the son of an Irish mother and a German father. He played the violin and conducted the orchestra at the Columbia Theatre on Powell Street in San Francisco, and was president of the Musicians' Union when city boss Abe Ruef chose him to run"
"composer Franz Schubert. The famous Schubert song ""An Sylvia"" used Bauernfeld's translation of Shakespeare: Schubert also set a handful of original Bauernfeld poems. At his death Schubert left an unfinished opera ""Der Graf von Gleichen"" to a libretto by Bauernfeld. There are Memoirs of Schubert and his circle (including the painter Moritz von Schwind who Bauernfeld had known from the Gymnasium (school) in Vienna and remained close friends with until old age) from Bauernfeld in Deutsch's book ""Schubert Memoirs by his friends"". Bauernfeld’s immortal beloved was Clotilde Neilreich Dornau (1805-1885). He also used the pseudonyms ""Rusticocampus"" or ""Feld"". Eduard von"
"modified to Theodor W. Adorno. His childhood was marked by the musical life provided by his mother and aunt: Maria was a singer who could boast of having performed in Vienna at the Imperial Court, while her sister, Agathe, who lived with them, had made a name for herself as both a singer and pianist. He was not only a precocious child but, as he recalled later in life, a child prodigy who could play pieces by Beethoven on the piano by the time he was twelve. At the age of six, he attended the Deutschherren middle school before transferring"
"Moondog Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), also known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from the age of 16. Hardin lived in New York City from the late 1940s until 1972, and during this time he could often be found on 6th Avenue, between 52nd and 55th Streets, wearing a cloak and a horned helmet sometimes busking or selling music, but often just standing silently on the sidewalk. He was widely recognized as ""the Viking of 6th Avenue"" by thousands of passersby and"
"programs included an abstract light-and-sound ""rendering of Schönberg's moonscape in Pierrot Lunaire"" and ""a series of masks and musical motives"" conjuring up ""the various archetypal Pierrot characters."" Schoenberg has attracted at least one prominent parodist: in 1924, Hans Eisler, a student of Schoenberg, published ""Palmström (Studies on 12-tone Rows)"", in which a ""Sprechstimme"" vocalist, singing texts by Christian Morgenstern, parodies the musical lines of ""Pierrot"" to the accompaniment of flute (or piccolo), clarinet, violin (or viola), and violincello. Beginning in the early 1980s, scholars and musicians began to take a fresh look at Giraud's original texts, thereby initiating an implicit"
"and moved to Hamburg, where he was looked after by a former pupil. Two strokes left him paralysed in 1894, and he became completely blind in his last years. He died in Hamburg, on 18 September 1903. Kirchner was esteemed by, amongst others, Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann (who wrote approvingly of him in ""Neue Zeitschrift für Musik""), Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Dvořák, and Grieg. He was a gifted arranger whose transcriptions include the realization of Brahms's two string sextets as piano trios; he also made the vocal score of Brahms's German Requiem and solo piano arrangements of the third and fourth sets"
"Wolfgang Korngold's violin concerto was drawn from the music he composed for this film. English singer Julia Gilbert adopted the name of the film's main character when recording for the London-based él record label in the late 1980s. Screen legend Tony Curtis (1925–2010), who was born Bernard Schwartz, named himself for the titular character; the novel from which this film was adapted was the actor's favorite. Curtis, who soared to fame with his role in ""Houdini"" as the legendary illusionist, was buried with a Stetson hat, an Armani scarf, driving gloves, an iPhone and a copy of his favorite novel"
"The stamps were soon replaced by a pair featuring music written by Schumann. Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured Schumann that Robert could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing. In 1840, after a long and"
"orchestral music at all, though his friend Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen made an orchestral suite out of some of Kirchner's piano pieces. He was especially influenced by Robert Schumann's music. Kirchner's complete works are being published by Amadeus in Winterthur. Theodor Kirchner Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner (10 December 1823 – 18 September 1903) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic era. Kirchner enjoyed the friendship and admiration of many leading composers of the 19th century yet was unable to maintain a successful career, apparently due to a disordered way of life which included extravagant spending and an addiction to gambling. He"
"inventions, as well as both volumes of ""The Well-Tempered Clavier"") and on the fortepiano (especially works by Mozart). He recalled playing a clavichord at a house concert in Hamburg, Germany. Kirkpatrick died in Guilford, Connecticut at the age of 72. On April 2, 1999, the asteroid 9902 Kirkpatrick is named in his honor. His brother, (1898-1971), is sociologist. His niece, Meredith Kirkpatrick, is his biographer [http://library.bu.edu/c.php?g=268287&p=1790232 <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]. Ralph Kirkpatrick Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick (; June 10, 1911April 13, 1984) was an American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist. He is best known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas. Kirkpatrick was"
"Schroeder's piano on November 26, 1951. Schroeder aged rapidly over time, catching up to Charlie Brown in age, and Charlie Brown became less like a father figure and more like a close friend to Schroeder. Charlie Brown had Schroeder become his catcher for the first time on the April 12, 1952, strip. Around this point, their final relationship has pretty much been established. On the sixth day of January 1952, Charlie Brown made his appearance on the first Sunday ""Peanuts"" strip. Charlie Brown is first seen interacting with the character Lucy van Pelt on March 3, 1952. He was on"
"of a chess-playing automaton. Alone on the stage of a provincial theater, the famous pianist Penny Vanderwood repeat her next piano recital. A Man between two ages broke into the theatre room and observe the young woman. As soon as she finished playing, he applauded at length, ""I had long dreamed of inventing a pianist robot and when I saw you, I knew it would look like you."" The Man leaves Penny his business card: ""Count of St. Germain, creator of automatons."" The day after her recital, Penny reads in bed in the flattering newspaper article dedicated to her. The"