May 16th, 2007
Cute and ugly composers
Tonight I entertain a serious issue: who were the most handsome (dead) composers, and who are the ugliest ones? Better yet, let’s be specific:
Who was the cutest (dead) composer?
Henry Cowell
Who were the most handsome (dead) composers in their youth?
Schubert and Paderewski
Who were the most handsome (dead) composers?
Busoni and Bernstein
Who was the geekiest young (dead) composer?
Gershwin, Liszt and Griffes
Who was the tallest (dead) composer? and who was the scariest looking (dead) composer?
Alban Berg (with Webern); Moondog
Who was the ugliest (dead) composer?
Rossini
And finally, who was the oddest looking senior (dead) composer?
Sibelius
May 16th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
At the end of a post on Cowell, I said his picture was “captivating.”
http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/2004/12/the_banshee_192.html
But as Cowell got older, he started to resemble that photo of Sibelius. This leads me to seek out the young Sibelius.
http://www.abo.fi/fak/hf/musik/Sibelius/EN/2.htm
Are these before and after photos even the same people? Yikes.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:41 am
[…] Schubert staat op bijna alle afbeeldingen als een wat dikkige man, in de laatste jaren van zijn leven, terwijl er een werkelijk prachtig portret van hem bestaat als jongeling. Schubert is zonder meer de winnaar van de “knapste dode componist in zijn jeugd” competitie. […]