"He wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works. But he was better known, and celebrated, as a musical parodist. Who can forget the 'Concerto for Horn and Hardart'?"
PDQ Bach has passed. My mother had one of his records (THE WURST OF PDQ BACH). And I played this over and over again because I was drawn to satire and parody at the frighteningly young age of five. I was very fond of "Oratorio: The Seasonings" (and it helped me to identify some of the jars in the spice rack) and I had no idea what "The Stoned Guest" was all about. (I would learn later.) But it did help me feel more comfortable about my closeted love for classical music, which, come to think of it, is still closeted for reasons I have discussed elsewhere (namely, growing up poor and being humiliated by an affluent adult asshole over my shabby clothes at an opera).