Schroeder (Peanuts)

Schroeder
Peanuts character
Schroeder playing his toy piano
First appearance	May 30, 1951 (Comic Strip)
Last appearance	September 12, 1999 (Comic Strip) Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011 Television Special and Movie) The Peanuts Movie (2015 film)
Voiced by	Chris Doran (1963, 1965) Glenn Mendelson (1966–1968) John Daschback (1969) Andy Pforsich (1969) Danny Hjeim (1971) David Carey (1972–1973) Brian Kazajian (1972) Todd Barbee (1974) Greg Felton (1975–1976, 1977) Liam Martin (1975) Daniel Anderson (1977) Christopher Donohoe (1980–1982) Kevin Brando (1983) Gary Goren (1984) Danny Colby (1984–1986) Jeremy Reinbolt (1985) Aron Mandelbaum (1986) Curtis Andersen (1988–1989) Travis Boles (1996) Corey Padnos (2000) Christopher Ryan Johnson (2002–2003) Nick Price (2003) Jake D. Smith (2008-2009) Trenton Rogers (2011) Connor Keddington (2012) Noah Johnston (2015) Jack Obert (2016)
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Gender	Male

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 by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. Schroeder is also the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team, though he is always seen walking back to the mound with the baseball, never throwing it—admitting in one strip he did not want the other team to discover his lack of ability. He is also the object of the unrequited infatuation of 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 dressing down the girls (Lucy, Patty, Violet and Frieda) and Snoopy in Charlie Brown's All-Stars, when it was discovered Charlie Brown would not sacrifice the girls and Snoopy just to get uniforms for the baseball team. He also is one of the few players who has any respect for Charlie Brown as a manager; though he is as capable of ire at Charlie Brown's poor performance as anyone else, such instances are few and far between. In one game, when Frieda desperately asked Schroeder "Wouldn't you like just once to see Charlie Brown hit that ball?", Schroeder's calm reply was "No, I am not prepared to have the world come to an end".