Gustavo Mon-Dieu Porquoi is an American composer with a wide range of compositions under his belt. He has been nominated for 30 Grammys and is widely considered to be the father of modern avant-garde composing. He is also gay as fucking hell and has like 9 whole husbands shit is lit my dude.
Porquoi was born and raised in Hellville, Ohio to his parents Julia and Ricardo Porquoi. His house was very musical, his mother was a professional jazz oboe and octavin player and his older brother Jeremy went on to physically evolve into John Cage somehow. He began composing at 11 years old, starting with his famous “Vivace for 13 Oboes and a Scarecrow”. He was always a lover of the avant-garde and out of the ordinary, and continued to almost exclusively write in this style, until he hit the age of 35, when he wrote his “Concerto for Sopranino Recorder and Piccolo”, in which he chose to use the 2 most annoying instruments he could think of and use them beautifully. (Author’s note: I actually high key love recorders.)
He studied music education and composition at the Sniggledap Conservatory in New York, there his friend and future 5th husband Amadeus Housuer, let him try his cello. Porquoi immediately fell in love with the instrument and began to learn all the string instruments he could. Which later evolved to woodwinds and percussion too. Around the time he began to pick up all these instruments was when he composed his first Orchestral Suite: “Tabatha and the City of Rainbows” which was critically acclaimed.
Here are some of our favorites of Gustavo Mon-Dieu Porquoi’s compositions:
