[QuietGuy]

Ravel ..............

 

[Albert7]

Chin but I don't like it when a fan is used to blow hair away like that.

Okay, I have concluded on a sour note this morning.

So a double portrait of Charlotte Bray:

and

a rare smile in today's composition world. Most of them want to look as dour as Rubinstein on acid (not a reference to chemicals with low pH).

 

[Lord Lance]

Chin but I don't like it when a fan is used to blow hair away like that.

Okay, I have concluded on a sour note this morning.

So a double portrait of Charlotte Bray:

and

a rare smile in today's composition world. Most of them want to look as dour as Rubinstein on acid (not a reference to chemicals with low pH).

From what I've read, Rubinstein was a humble man and pianist. He got along with the conductor and fellow chamber musicians. Perhaps the expected level of ego aside, he was certainly no Celibidache. Dour? Rubinstein photographs would indicate otherwise. Noble? Perhaps. Then again, the Polish folk look noble. As far as I know, Rubinstein didn't take acid. But, hey, that's a fan's take on the Master.

 

[senza sordino]

Brahms and Joachim 1855, twenty years before the violin concerto was composed. They were friends for a long time.
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[Balthazar]

A very dapper Albéric Magnard, Guy Ropartz (seated), and Eugène Ysaÿe.

 

[Bastian]

Enescu and Menuhin

Komitas

Rachmaninov

 

[KenOC]

Noted on another forum: Liszt in 1843. Is there any earlier photo of a major composer?

 

[Manxfeeder]

A very dapper Albéric Magnard, Guy Ropartz (seated), and Eugène Ysaÿe.

The OCD in me is wanting to reach in and straighten those pictures.

 

[elgar's ghost]

Noted on another forum: Liszt in 1843. Is there any earlier photo of a major composer?

I asked the same question some time back and then I saw this one of Paganini which, if genuine, must have been taken early in 1840 or before. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere there is doubt over its authenticity.

 

[Pugg]

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

That look on his face and watch the finger pointing.

 

[Enthusiast]

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Bartok looking a little hungry (no pun intended).

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Saint-Saens looking well fed and ready for bed.

 

[RICK RIEKERT]

John Cage contemplating mushrooms.

Mahler asking for directions.

 

[Huilunsoittaja]

DUDE don't get me started on photographs... I'll start myself instead

From my collection of handsome composers (in no particular order)

Anton Arensky

Selim Palmgren

Glazunov

Prokofiev

Sergei Taneyev

 

[Huilunsoittaja]

Some other funny ones I've collected over the years

Arensky, Taneyev, and some other guy in the middle doing something weird with a tuning fork and a bow, I don't understand

Gretchaninoff and Kalinnikov having fun with a camera, I guess

Glazunov and Stasov boating. What? Glazunov being athletic??

Young student Prokofiev pretending to be blown away by that girl's magic finger in an acting skit (really)

 

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

Me dressed for a night out

 

[Pugg]

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Mr. Maurice Ravel .

 

[EddieRUKiddingVarese]

^ He would look much better in dark glasses

 

[Pugg]

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The great Mr. Rossini

 

[Enthusiast]

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Brahms with some ladies.

 

[Enthusiast]

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Ligeti makes an important point to Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

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Prokofiev seems to be struggling in a chess match with David Oistrakh.