Photographs of composers

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

Discussion Starter · Jul 9, 2015

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Sometimes seeing a photograph of a composer, especially a composer of days long past, can be interesting since the world is so used to famous painted portraits of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Putting a face to the sound isn't necessarily a very useful piece of information at all I suppose, but I also suppose that it can help recognise sounds as coming from a human creator rather than a name on the corner of a score.

However I think this photo of Arturo Fuentes trumps all photos of any living composer

For older composers, this photograph should definitely be more famous

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ArtMusic

· #2 · Jul 9, 2015

Charming photo of Ms Deutscher.

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KenOC

· #3 · Jul 9, 2015

Liszt, warts and all. No Photoshop in those days.

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KenOC

· #4 · Jul 9, 2015

I helped old Franz out a bit.

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ArtMusic

· #5 · Jul 9, 2015

This one of Wagner looks a bit disturbing to me, not sure why.

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Arsakes

· #6 · Jul 9, 2015

The winner photo of a composer:

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KenOC

· #7 · Jul 9, 2015

V-W with a cat? Hah! Here's Shostakovich with a pig!

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elgar's ghost

· #8 · Jul 9, 2015

The picture of Fuentes is a good case of 'classical's the new rock 'n' roll' - nothing at all wrong with that as he seems to be a very photogenic subject but a small problem is when people are pictured showing off their cool 'I'm so now' gizmos. As technology moves so fast these days the one he is brandishing will probably look 'soooooo passé' in the not too distant future that he will run the risk of looking about as cool as a guy from the 1980s using a mobile phone the size of a brick.

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Heliogabo

· #9 · Jul 9, 2015

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Furniture Coat Chair Crew Vintage clothing

Scriabin, with military attire, is the second on the left. Rachmaninoff is the fourth from the right.

Two more Scriabin photos, with his mistress Tatiana and musicologist Leonid sabaneyev at the Oka river in Siberia.

Photograph Hat Umbrella Headgear Adaptation

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Art Rock

· #10 · Jul 9, 2015

Roxanne Panufnik.

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elgar's ghost

· #11 · Jul 9, 2015

Offenbach. He always seems to be smiling, bless him. Not exactly a fashionable trait with mid-late 19th century portrait photography.

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Orfeo

· #12 · Jul 9, 2015

^^^
So true, even in the 20th Century (except Lehar, Prokofiev, however rare).

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Heliogabo

· #13 · Jul 9, 2015

Mahler´s daydream

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elgar's ghost

· #14 · Jul 9, 2015

^
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Probably wishing that the photographer would hurry up and sling his hook. :lol:

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

Discussion Starter · #15 · Jul 9, 2015

Ive been listening to Britten, so here is his strategically placed leg

Chest Barechested Water Trunk Monochrome photography

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elgar's ghost

· #16 · Jul 9, 2015

ArtMusic said:
This one of Wagner looks a bit disturbing to me, not sure why.

Perhaps it's the gang sign he's giving with his right hand.

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Alfacharger

· #17 · Jul 9, 2015 (Edited)

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Arsakes said:
The winner photo of a composer:

One composer, Bernard Herrmann, tried to copy the RVW photo with his dog Twi.

I wonder what Hitchcock was thinking in this photo with a sleeping Herrmann,

More composers and their dogs!

http://intermezzo.typepad.com/intermezzo/2012/09/composers-dogs.html

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QuietGuy

· #18 · Jul 9, 2015

This picture of LB (conducting Mahler #5 at Tanglewood, I believe) is the quintessential Bernstein.

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Vronsky

· #19 · Jul 10, 2015

Igor Stravinsky and Florent Schmitt

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Heliogabo

· #20 · Jul 10, 2015

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Brahms with Clara Schumann

Brahms in Clara Schumann´s funeral

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