Composers whose physical appearance resembles their musical style

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J.Z. Herrenberg

#80
November 10, 2008, 01:59:34 PM
Quote from: Dundonnell on November 10, 2008, 01:56:18 PM
With apologies to Johan for explaining his very witty reply to Jeffrey's original post ;D

I hope that you do not object to me explaining the point to Joe :)

Of course I don't. My joke was rather British...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

Dancing Divertimentian

#81
November 10, 2008, 05:00:58 PM
Martinu:





Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Kullervo

#82
November 10, 2008, 05:47:53 PM
Quote from: mikkeljs on November 10, 2008, 01:48:56 PM
Actually I find it much harder to name a composer who don´t look like his music...


What about William Boyce? ;D

greg

#83
November 10, 2008, 07:06:24 PM
Quote from: Corey on November 10, 2008, 05:47:53 PM
What about William Boyce? ;D


That's what happens to KFC when he eats at his own restaurant too often.

vandermolen

#84
November 10, 2008, 10:58:49 PM
Stanford:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

tr. pianist

#85
November 11, 2008, 11:34:08 PM

Composers look like their music. I also noticed that.
This is Rimsky-Korsakov. He liked to collect folk songs. He also educated himself. He wrote that he was one step in front of his student when he started to teach.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#86
November 12, 2008, 12:14:48 AM
I posted this already somewhere else: Rued Langgaard, the (sometimes angry) visionary. In the score of his Twelfth (iirc) he wrote as a direction 'the composer explodes' -


Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

cal

#87
November 12, 2008, 12:17:01 AM


John Tavener
Be who you are and say how you feel, for those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind.

tr. pianist

#88
November 12, 2008, 12:24:58 AM

I don't think that Bartok looks like his music.

Mozart does has a look of someone who loves life and fun.

pjme

#89
November 12, 2008, 04:08:33 AM Last Edit: November 12, 2008, 06:13:55 AM by pjme
that photograph of Bartok spells : intelligence.  :) great!

Dundonnell

#90
November 12, 2008, 05:02:05 AM
Quote from: Jezetha on November 12, 2008, 12:14:48 AM
I posted this already somewhere else: Rued Langgaard, the (sometimes angry) visionary. In the score of his Twelfth (iirc) he wrote as a direction 'the composer explodes' -




Ha! That's a better photo of Langgaard than the one I posted, Johan!

Kullervo

#91
November 12, 2008, 05:14:11 AM


Seems like his looks expired around age 40. I hope there's not a correlation with his music! :o

Dundonnell

#92
November 12, 2008, 05:21:37 AM
Quote from: Corey on November 12, 2008, 05:14:11 AM


Seems like his looks expired around age 40. I hope there's not a correlation with his music! :o

He certainly had a 'nose' for music ;D

J.Z. Herrenberg

#93
November 12, 2008, 05:40:35 AM
Quote from: Dundonnell on November 12, 2008, 05:02:05 AM
Ha! That's a better photo of Langgaard than the one I posted, Johan!

Yes, it's quite characteristic, isn't it?

Quote from: Corey on November 12, 2008, 05:14:11 AM
Seems like his looks expired around age 40. I hope there's not a correlation with his music! :o

Don't think so. The eyes are fiery enough...

Quote from: Dundonnell on November 12, 2008, 05:21:37 AM
He certainly had a 'nose' for music

Incontrovertible.  ;D
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

tr. pianist

#94
November 12, 2008, 07:59:39 AM Last Edit: November 12, 2008, 08:02:31 AM by tr. pianist
Here is Schedrin and his wife Plisetskaya. I find his serious music tedious some times or old fashioned.
He wrote an opera Lolita, but had problems with copyrights. It was allowed to go ahead in other languges, but Enlish.


He wrote that Carmen suit for Plisetskaya to dance. Does anyone know him?

Or does Glass looks like his music?

vandermolen

#95
November 12, 2008, 08:29:16 AM
Sir Arthur Bliss had a kind of magisterial look about him which seems to correlate with his music:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Dundonnell

#96
November 12, 2008, 08:33:30 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on November 12, 2008, 08:29:16 AM
Sir Arthur Bliss had a kind of magisterial look about him which seems to correlate with his music:



'Masterly' even ;D

His father was an American too ;D

tr. pianist

#97
November 12, 2008, 08:34:28 AM
What about  Gubaidulina. Does she look like her music?

vandermolen

#98
November 12, 2008, 08:36:23 AM
Sir Granville Bantock; a 100% correlation between his physical appearance and his music  ;D

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Dundonnell

#99
November 12, 2008, 08:44:56 AM
Max Reger looked a cheery chap-
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