[NoCoPilot]

Charles Wuorinen

John Williams

 

[NoCoPilot]

 

[Jacck]

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/cats-composers-lookalikes/

 

[NoCoPilot]

 

[NoCoPilot]

Music composed for cats:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-37708585

 

[Olias]

Rossini must have had two:

 

[Olias]

Apparently Debussy preferred cats to humans:

https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/0...2016/04/07/classical-cats-the-feline-muses-of-claude-debussy-and-maurice-ravel/

 

[Guest002]

Apparently Debussy preferred cats to humans:

https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/0...2016/04/07/classical-cats-the-feline-muses-of-claude-debussy-and-maurice-ravel/

Well, he seems like a sound man!

 

[Guest002]

...

I love all those pictures. Horowitz looks very happy!
I don't know everyone else in your montage, but thank you. <-- scrub that, I worked it out! Thanks.

PS. If you've got pictures of composers and fish, spiders or what have you... I'm happy to see them all. Doesn't have to be just cats (though they are the ones that will make me go gooey).

 

[NoCoPilot]

Composers and spiders? Sacre bleu!

 

[NoCoPilot]

Apparently Debussy preferred cats to humans

Obviously a man of discernment.

 

[cheregi]

I have no pictures to contribute but this thread is delightful! Keep em coming!!

 

[NoCoPilot]

 

[NoCoPilot]

 

[hammeredklavier]

Brahms cleared of serial cat slaying
Johannes Brahms, bewhiskered composer of four symphonies, has been cleared of one of the most serious charges ever levelled at a musical genius - the accusation that he was a serial cat slayer.
For more than a century, cat lovers have accepted as true the allegation that Brahms slaughtered felines, transcribed the sounds of their dying moments and callously incorporated them in to his works.
But research proves that the foul calumny was almost certainly the work of Richard Wagner, a notoriously bitchy composer whose operas go on longer than one of the nine lives of an average mog. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/12/highereducation.arts

 

[NoCoPilot]

What breed of dog, what breed of cat is the most 'composerly'?

 

[hammeredklavier]

The Austrian novelist Karoline von Greiner Pichler had been a student of Mozart. She describes her former teacher in her Memoirs, published in 1843. "One day when I was sitting at the pianoforte playing the 'Non più andrai' from Figaro, Mozart, who was paying a visit to us, came up behind me; I must have been playing it to his satisfaction, for he hummed the melody as I played and beat the time on my shoulders; but then he suddenly moved a chair up, sat down, told me to carry on playing the bass, and began to improvise such wonderfully beautiful variations that everyone listened to the tones of the German Orpheus with bated breath. But then he suddenly tired of it, jumped up, and, in the mad mood which so often came over him, he began to leap over tables and chairs, miaow like a cat, and turn somersaults like an unruly boy …." (Quoted in Deutsch Mozart: A Documentary Biography, trans. Eric Blom, Peter Branscombe, and Jeremy Noble.)

 

[Ethereality]

In the future composers will have an AI cats who meow back any tune or measure you can think of, and ultra-intelligent AI dogs who will sit back and give their deeper personal interpretation of it, and often they will get into lengthy arguments with one another as you sit back watching, and you will take out your sketchbook and begin taking criticizing notes on their analyses, and they'll momentarily stop and stare at you wondering what they said wrong.

 

[KenOC]

In the future composers will tend the computers that create music and stream it into out heads to make us cheerful, hard working, and docile. Cats may or may not be involved.

 

[Animal the Drummer]

Rossini must have had two:

I was First Tom in that at a school concert back in the day.

In other news (mews?), one of my teachers at that school once described the Sibelius concerto as a "concerto for cat and orchestra".