Mystery Composer Portrait

Mark · August 31, 2007, 02:59:13 PM

The game is simple: identify the composers who will appear in the next five posts.

Mark · August 31, 2007, 03:00:13 PM

No. 1

Mark · August 31, 2007, 03:01:29 PM

No. 2

Mark · August 31, 2007, 03:02:17 PM

No. 3

Mark · August 31, 2007, 03:02:52 PM

No. 4

Mark · August 31, 2007, 03:03:28 PM

No. 5

btpaul674 · August 31, 2007, 03:34:50 PM

1. beethoven
2. schubert
3. liszt

lukeottevanger · August 31, 2007, 03:44:56 PM

first reactions

1 Beethoven.
2 Schubert
3 Liszt
4 Ligeti
5 weird....

Larry Rinkel · August 31, 2007, 05:42:06 PM

Quote from: lukeottevanger on August 31, 2007, 03:44:56 PM
first reactions

1 Beethoven.
2 Schubert
3 Liszt
4 Ligeti
5 weird....

5 Wagner

Mark · September 01, 2007, 12:19:11 AM

Well, the first four have been correctly identified. I'll admit No. 5 is a little trickier.

springrite · September 01, 2007, 02:03:52 AM

#5 appears to be Margaret Thatcher!

If not Wagner then, Emil von Sauer?

Mark · September 01, 2007, 03:03:30 AM

Quote from: springrite on September 01, 2007, 02:03:52 AM
If not Wagner then, Emil von Sauer?

Nope. Guess again.

BachQ · September 01, 2007, 04:26:40 AM

#5 = Samuel Coleridge-Taylor or Amy Beach?

Maciek · September 01, 2007, 04:29:38 AM

Didn't Amy Beach have a beard?

BachQ · September 01, 2007, 04:31:39 AM

If you look closely, you can see a beard in the portrait .........

Maciek · September 01, 2007, 04:34:12 AM

Ha! Then the mystery is solved!

Mark · September 01, 2007, 05:02:17 AM

No. 5 remains a mystery. I'll give you a few more hours, then a clue.

lukeottevanger · September 01, 2007, 05:39:35 AM

It looks like the genetically engineered offspring of Copland and Schoenberg to me....

aquablob · September 01, 2007, 06:15:52 AM

I know I've seen that portrait before... I feel perhaps in one of my college textbooks. So far I am drawing a blank, though.

Kullervo · September 01, 2007, 06:28:06 AM

Is 5 Mendelssohn?