Bad hair days

[Lethevich]

This thread is a celebration of how awesome classical musicians looked in the time before modern haircare products to keep their epic manes under control - suggestions welcome, although I suspect that not many care about this subject.

Abendroth, Backhaus, Mengelberg, Berlioz, Paderewski.



The forum software doesn't cooperate with image dumps, so I'll split this into two:

[Lethevich]

...Strauss, Ashkenazy, E. Fischer, Schreker.



In the intriguing stylistic choices corner: Knappertsbusch, Langgaard.

[Sergeant Rock]

Keeping the tradition alive: Evgeny Kissin:




Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Keeping the tradition alive: Evgeny Kissin:
Sarge

I was thinking of Rattle too, but anyone with curly hair like that is bound to have a bad day or 60,000.

And just so as not to be a freeloader, how about Charles Koechlin? 

[springrite]

Langgaard is the first name that came to mind for me, followed by Grieg.

Then again, there are those who disguised their bad hair by going bald.

[petrarch]

How can you possibly forget to mention Varèse, whose picture in the record cover so inspired Zappa:

[Brian]

In the intriguing stylistic choices corner: Knappertsbusch, Langgaard.

How could Langgaard fail to be eccentric?

P.S.

Janacek - Wieniawski

 

[Lethevich]

Another foolish omission - Hans Rott:

[Brian]

Ferdinand Ries and his Amazing Unibrow




And... say...

[Superhorn]

   This actually belongs in the composer lookalikes,but Schreker does look a lot like conductor Franz Welser-Most.  What about the bald older Sibelius? 

[The Diner]

These men had more important things to think about than their hair styles.

[Sergeant Rock]

And we have a winner!!!

[mahler10th]

And we have a winner!!!

Awww. Leave Hans alone.  That picture was taken in 1883 when he was in Mental Hospital, the year before he died.  You monsters!   

[Scarpia]

Frankly, most of the hair you are showing look perfectly ordinary to me, especially taking into account the variation of fashion with time.

[Sergeant Rock]

These men had more important things to think about than their hair styles.

Awww. Leave Hans alone.  That picture was taken in 1883 when he was in Mental Hospital, the year before he died.  You monsters!   

Sorry, John. I couldn't resist 


Sarge

[mahler10th]

Sorry, John. I couldn't resist 
Sarge

This is terrible.  I laughed at your post!  Brilliant.

[DavidRoss]

Yet one more blessing of high testosterone!

[Daverz]

They used to call classical music "long hair music".  If you watch the recent Glenn Gould doc, when he gets in the cab, the cabbie asks him whether he plays "long hair music or the other kind", and Gould responds, "the long hair kind".