Composer Lookalikes

[ahinton]

Gustav Mahler could win a Franz Schubert lookalike compo any day (though Rodin considered him to look more like Mozart)

It may be partly their respective oft-portrayed spectacles but, be this as it may (or may not), this resemblance hit me to such an extent that, towards the end of the first movement of the score of my Concerto for 22 (wind) Instruments, I actually took the liberty to draw two pairs of adjacent spectacles (representing each of them) at the point at which the (transposed) openings of Schubert's A minor Piano Sonata and B minor Symphony rub contrapuntal noses with the (also transposed) opening themes of the first movement, scherzo and finale of Mahler's Sixth Symphony in company with the opening theme of the first movement of my own work...

That said, I don't think that I look like any other composer and indeed hope that I don't, for any other composer's sake...

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

[Caliban]

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

[Beef Oven]

[Beef Oven]

[Boilk]

...

On a subconscious level, there was always something that scared me about Sibelius.

[Simon]

That's weird! Good thread, kboil.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Surely Sibelius is Uncle Fester?!

[Flay]

Surely Sibelius is Uncle Fester?!

I stumbled across these excellent sketches - it doesn't compare faces, but the pictures are fun: http://www.opdebeeck.com/caricaturessketchesb.html

Here's Anton: http://www.opdebeeck.com/afbeeldinge...e/bruckner.jpg