Photographs of composers

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