Fashions of the Composers

[snyprrr]

Who was the first Composer to wear a cool suit? Ravel?

Who was the last Composer to wear a wig?

Ha, who was the first Composer not to wear a tie?


I have seen a picture of Roslavets...


I have seen a picture of Bernstein...


Do we have a picture of Hindemith in laderhosen?


I have noticed how Messiaen had an Einstein like habit of wearing the same awful blue... what is it, a pants suit?


I have notice how Gyorgy Kurtag always wears a nice white suit shirt with the collar open and the sleeves rolled up (perhaps my favorite look).


I have noticed Lindberg looking quite dashing in black.


Please, just as Classical became Romantic became Modern, and so forth, what can you tell me about the evolution of Composer Fashion?

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Do we have a picture of Hindemith in laderhosen?

I do!

[snyprrr]

I do!

LOL!!

[eyeresist]

MY EYES!!!

[Lethevich]

Vaughan Williams: first documented male composer to wear a dress.



And I sometimes wonder - was Knappertsbusch EVER in style?

[Grazioso]

I do!

That's brilliant: I didn't know there was a "Furtwaengler and Hindemith Meet the Three Stooges" movie!

[snyprrr]

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Premiere Shirtless Composer?

[Gurn Blanston]

I may be wrong, but since you ask, I think that Haydn was the last composer to wear a wig. He wore his right until he died in 1809, long after the wig style was past. I have a painting of him somewhere without his; he was nearly bald, so the wig was a good call.

[Lethevich]

Premiere Shirtless Composer?

I think that there is a pic of Corigliano topless with jeans, but I can't for the life of me find it. He certainly looked better than Schoenberg or Stravinsky did in their famous pics

[Luke]

I think that there is a pic of Corigliano topless with jeans, but I can't for the life of me find it. He certainly looked better than Schoenberg or Stravinsky did in their famous pics

The one that I thought of was the famous Factory shot of Steve Martland (I think it caused ripples of controversy at the time) - actually, googling it reminds me that there were more than one. He doesn't look all that comfortable, actually:

[Luke]

They don't seem to work - nevermind, check out http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/martland.html, discs 266, 306 and Patrol to see the CD covers

[snyprrr]

Premiere Shirtless Composer?

Why do I ask?? ?? Why??

[starrynight]

Mozart probably liked to dress up a bit, and I remember reading that Haydn when composing actually liked to wear his best clothes.  Not sure if Beethoven in later years was so concerned about how he looked though.

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Vaughan Williams: first documented male composer to wear a dress.

Poor ol' RVW. I guess his parents always wanted him to be a girl.

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Dressing young boys as girls was very common among the upper classes at that time, for horrible, horrible reasons we can only guess at