Chaconne à son Goût

The liner notes state that "not one of the themes ... is original. It turns out that every single melody in the piece had been thought of by some other composer as well." The Bach theme is used throughout as a bass or counterpoint, as is normal for a chaconne or passacaglia (the two terms are more or less interchangeable).

It appears that not even Schickele himself is immune from P.D.Q. Bach's plagiarism "rubbing off" on him - the section beginning with Brahms' first symphony and going through Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony is lifted directly from Schickele's "Quodlibet for chamber orchestra".
 * Model: Chaconne or passacaglia
 * Pieces referenced:
 * J. S. Bach: Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
 * Santa Lucia
 * Schubert: Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished") (first movement)
 * Streets of Cairo
 * J. S. Bach: 2-part Invention No. 8 in F
 * Stephen Foster: Beautiful Dreamer
 * Greensleeves
 * Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (fourth movement)
 * Offenbach: Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann
 * Waldteufel: The Skaters Waltz
 * George Leybourne and Gaston Lyle: The Man on the Flying Trapeze
 * Gaudeamus Igitur
 * Vicente Fernández: Cielito Lindo
 * The Hearse Song
 * Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
 * We Three Kings
 * Mildred Hill: Happy Birthday
 * Walter Schumann: Theme from Dragnet
 * Shave and a Haircut
 * Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (fourth movement
 * Mozart: La Ci Darem La Mano from Don Giovanni
 * Stephen Foster: Old Folks at Home
 * Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 (second movement)
 * Rachmaninoff: 18th Variation of a theme of Paganini
 * Rossini: William Tell Overture
 * Brahms: Violin Concerto (third movement)
 * Schubert: Symphony No. 9 ("Great) (first movement)
 * Rubinstein: Melody in F major
 * Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 ("New World") (fourth movement)
 * Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (first movement)
 * Sailor's Hornpipe
 * J.S.Bach: Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2
 * Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (first movement)
 * Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 ("Funeral March") (second movement)
 * Gershwin: An American in Paris