Composers whose physical appearance resembles their musical style

[pjme]

This is a tough one : Minna Keal . She wrote a symphony in 1987....when she was 78....Late romantic pomp? or a hardhitting soundscape?

[cal]

Berg,

He also looks quite a lot like Thomas Ades to me

[Wanderer]

Berg, too:

In this picture, he kind of looks like Korngold:

[vandermolen]

Well of course it is. But I'm still absolutely right. 

[vandermolen]

I found this rare photo of Havergal Brian in which, I'm sure you'll all agree, he definitely resembles his music.

Especially for my friend Jezetha 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I found this rare photo of Havergal Brian in which, I'm sure you'll all agree, he definitely resembles his music.

Especially for my friend Jezetha 

(HB is) just like that! 

[pjme]

Really?! Those mirrors can be deceptive, then (as Shakespeare knew).

Read at http://www.classicalmusicnow.com/Tailleferrebiography.htm a short survey of Tailleferre's difficult life. Two divorces, real poverty in her old age...forgotten!
" I write music because it amuses me. Sometimes I'm compared to the "petits maîtres" of the 18th century...and I'm proud of that".
I have a little book " Germaine Tailleferre - la dame des Six" ( Georges Hacquard / Editions L'Harmattan /Paris 1998) in which one can read how Bernard Lefort ( general administrator of the Opéra) discovered that she lived - at age 80 - in a squalid little appartment, basically broke. He helped her find ( and payed for) a new place , and composer Charles Chaynes ( then creative director at Radio France) commissioned a new work....
She dies in Paris, november 7th 1983.
In March 1982, however , the new work was premiered at the Opéra , a "Concerto de la fidélité" for high voice ( no text) & orchestra. In fact a reworking of a harp sonata and ( afaik) the Concertino for high voice & orch. of 1953....Arleen Auger(!) was the soloist, Zoltan Pesko conducted the OPera -orchestra.

She leaves a quite substantial catalogue : works for chorus, chambermusic, several (short) operas, concertos and filmscores.
Not much has been recorded in rteally professional performances. The harpconcertino fares best in Zabaleta's recording, the (quite odd..) Concerto grosso for 2 pianos, 8 singers, sax quartet & orch. can,be heard on the ELAN label ( Clinton /Narboni pianoduett, Orchestre du Conservatoire du Centre de Paris (??)/ Bruno Poindefert) ...but it is far from perfect.
Nicole Paiement (conductor/ California) has recorded two discs with music by Tailleferre - but they lack polish & poetry...

P.

Minna Keal 's Symphony is definitely NOT late Romantic. !

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Excellent post, Peter. Thank you!

[greg]

Actually....I don't think that Scriabin looks like his music at all

All that wallowing in ecstatic, luxurious, decadent, perfumed, excess

He looks far too buttoned-up and respectable to me Mind you, it is always the ones you least expect who have a secret,darker side

Well, maybe just the moustache then. It's eccentric- no? 

[pjme]

Well, maybe just the moustache then. It's eccentric- no? 

Not in those days! men curled their moustaches with 'Pommade Hongroise" ,had special cups & saucers and even "moustache -savers" that could be worn by night.


moustachemug


moustache wax

[mn dave]

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[Dundonnell]

And a lovely planet it is, too. 

That, my friend, is a matter of opinion

[Dundonnell]

And the crooked tie! THE CROOKED TIE!

Dead give away, that

I never buttoned my top shirt button. Bad sign

[ChamberNut]

As did Anton Bruckner.


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I actually find that Bruckner's demeanor and physical appearance truly an opposite of his incredibly powerful symphonies. 

[pjme]

 We can hardly imagine what it was to live in the 19th century/from : http://homepage.mac.com/jgreshes/mahler/brucknerbio.html

Just about this time, in his forty-third year, he was made the unhappy victim of a great spiritual shock. The parents of the seventeen-year-old Josephine Lang with whom the composer had fallen in love refused him the girl's hand because of his age. In Bruckner's many cases of platonic affection for young girls (this continued till his seventieth year) there is enticing food for the modern psychologist's or psychoanalyst's formulizations.


P.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That, my friend, is a matter of opinion

I know. I think that, for a rather abstemious person like myself, the music of Delius, Scriabin and Debussy is my way of getting (mentally) drunk (which I have never been in real life)...

[Dundonnell]

I know. I think that, for a rather abstemious person like myself, the music of Delius, Scriabin and Debussy is my way of getting (mentally) drunk (which I have never been in real life)...

Well, Johan, you just go on listening to and loving the music of Delius, Scriabin and Debussy It will cost you far less and give you far more than indulging in strong liquor

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Well, Johan, you just go on listening to and loving the music of Delius, Scriabin and Debussy It will cost you far less and give you far more than indulging in strong liquor

Thank you, Colin. You're right. I know of no safer and cheaper way to get 'high'!

[vandermolen]

(HB is) just like that! 

V witty response Johan

[Dundonnell]

V witty response Johan

I am SOOOOOO slow

Of course