Well .. hm. I guess ``long'' is a mighty flexible word here ... Schroeder first appears on 30 May 1951, and he's first set at a piano (and shows his immediate skill) on 24 September. (The first piece he's identified as playing is his own composition, the next day, Rhapsody on a Theme by Schroeder, and the day after Charlie Brown claims Schroeder's to play Brahms's First Concerto for the New York Philip Harmonic [sic].)
Beethoven doesn't get mentioned around him until 10 October, when Charlie Brown reads him a biography, and Schroeder gets his first Beethoven bust 26 November. And getting farther off topic he doesn't play anything identified as Beethoven until 1 May 1953 -- everything before was listening to the radio or records or talking about such.
Getting back to names ... a list Derrick Bang developed for alt.comics.peanuts traces down people that Peanuts characters were named for and confirms the golf-caddy-buddy origin of Schroeder. Interestingly, Miss Othmar was named for Othmar Jarisch, a friend who ran a humane society. He doesn't have any possible last (or first) names to offer Schroeder but mentions the question.
The announcer of a call-in music request show, shown 8 February 1952, says, ``I'm sorry, Mr Schroeder, but we do not have that record'' (Beethoven's Piano Sonata Number 29), which would support the last-name hypothesis if Schroeder wrote his full name on the request. The announcer just said it was from ``a listener named Schroeder'', which sounds like he just wrote one name.
Talking of Schroeder's hopes to become a composer, Charlie Brown says on 22 February 1952 that there'll be a future ``big three'' of ``Schubert, Schumann, and Schroeder'' ... which also supports it being his last name, if Charlie Brown knew Schroeder's full name and wasn't just using the familiar name and picking two composers for the alliteration.
This is a really interesting question, thank you. I never imagined asking it.
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Date: 2005-04-14 11:36 am (UTC)Well .. hm. I guess ``long'' is a mighty flexible word here ... Schroeder first appears on 30 May 1951, and he's first set at a piano (and shows his immediate skill) on 24 September. (The first piece he's identified as playing is his own composition, the next day, Rhapsody on a Theme by Schroeder, and the day after Charlie Brown claims Schroeder's to play Brahms's First Concerto for the New York Philip Harmonic [sic].)
Beethoven doesn't get mentioned around him until 10 October, when Charlie Brown reads him a biography, and Schroeder gets his first Beethoven bust 26 November. And getting farther off topic he doesn't play anything identified as Beethoven until 1 May 1953 -- everything before was listening to the radio or records or talking about such.
Getting back to names ... a list Derrick Bang developed for alt.comics.peanuts traces down people that Peanuts characters were named for and confirms the golf-caddy-buddy origin of Schroeder. Interestingly, Miss Othmar was named for Othmar Jarisch, a friend who ran a humane society. He doesn't have any possible last (or first) names to offer Schroeder but mentions the question.
The announcer of a call-in music request show, shown 8 February 1952, says, ``I'm sorry, Mr Schroeder, but we do not have that record'' (Beethoven's Piano Sonata Number 29), which would support the last-name hypothesis if Schroeder wrote his full name on the request. The announcer just said it was from ``a listener named Schroeder'', which sounds like he just wrote one name.
Talking of Schroeder's hopes to become a composer, Charlie Brown says on 22 February 1952 that there'll be a future ``big three'' of ``Schubert, Schumann, and Schroeder'' ... which also supports it being his last name, if Charlie Brown knew Schroeder's full name and wasn't just using the familiar name and picking two composers for the alliteration.
This is a really interesting question, thank you. I never imagined asking it.