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Title: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 02:32:13 AM
Posted this a while ago on the Kenneth Leighton thread. I wonder if any other composers have "doubles".
Any suggestions?



Quote from: Klaatu on August 16, 2010, 09:09:36 AM
(http://musicweb-international.com/Leighton/kleighton.jpg)

Kenneth Leighton

(http://columbo.freeukisp.co.uk/prince.jpg)

Patrick McGoohan

Just bought a CD of Leighton's 1st Symphony - the first of his music I've purchased - opened the jewelcase and there was the star of The Prisoner staring back at me; quite a surreal moment.................worthy of the cult TV series itself! Not had chance to hear the Symphony yet so I'll report back in due course - if I'm not eaten by one of those big blobby balloon things first!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Lethevich on September 02, 2010, 03:04:43 AM
(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6895/55516812.jpg) (http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3005/55105573.jpg)

(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2563/76375475.jpg) (http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6710/60710392.jpg)

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2885/63445133.jpg) (http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9289/sorabji.png)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: CD on September 02, 2010, 05:08:42 AM
I support this thread.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: escher on September 02, 2010, 05:26:55 AM
shostakovich, sorabji and... medtner? Who is the second?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: CD on September 02, 2010, 06:20:49 AM
Respighi
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on September 02, 2010, 08:39:58 AM
George Lloyd and Dame Margaret Rutherford  ;D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: MN Dave on September 02, 2010, 08:47:28 AM
Beethoven
(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_03/beethovenAP2908_468x663.jpg)
Bob Schwartz
(http://www.thehistorybluff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/beethoven.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 09:51:25 AM
Edvard Grieg & Albert Einstein


(http://www.thema.no/images/grieg.jpg)      (http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-history/albert-einstein.jpg)

PS VANDERMOLEN - Nearly peed myself at your George Lloyd/Dame Margaret Rutherford contribution! ;D ;D :o ;D ;D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brahmsian on September 02, 2010, 09:56:20 AM
Quote from: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 09:51:25 AM
Edvard Grieg & Albert Einstein


(http://www.thema.no/images/grieg.jpg)      (http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-history/albert-einstein.jpg)


You read my mind!  I was visualizing Grieg and Einstein, and thought of posting this!  :)

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 09:59:21 AM
Spooky!!!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: snyprrr on September 02, 2010, 12:38:42 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on September 02, 2010, 08:39:58 AM
George Lloyd and Dame Margaret Rutherford  ;D

Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.com

I'm tellin ya, check it out!



Do all Brits turn into women in old a
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 10:08:53 PM
Alexander Zemlinsky and "Carry On Films" British actor Charles Hawtrey

(http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/359_Bard-Summer-Opera-Pr960295.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/12/article-1219942-06BFFE20000005DC-996_233x283.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 10:13:14 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on September 02, 2010, 12:38:42 PM
Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.com

I'm tellin ya, check it out!



Do all Brits turn into women in old a

Ye Gods! and I thought you were kidding! :o :o :o

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: hornteacher on September 03, 2010, 03:46:14 AM
The obvious one.......

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Superhorn on September 03, 2010, 07:59:04 AM
    I've been told that I have a pretty good resemblance to
     Alexander Glazunov. 
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Opus106 on September 03, 2010, 08:51:52 AM
Not quite as good as some posted here -- especially the Leighton and Zemlinsky -- but these were the personalities I was reminded of when I saw the composers' pictures for the first time.

I notice a certain similarity between Wolfgang Rihm (left) and Mark Tully (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mark_Tully).

(http://www.kultur-online.net/files/architecture/Wolfgang-Rihm-%28c%29-Astrid-Karger.jpg)(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01609/mark-tully_1609610c.jpg)





When someone posted the cover shown below, I was immediately reminded of an older Paul Dirac.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qGk5TQ4NL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://web.fccj.org/~ethall/quantum/dirac.jpg)

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on September 03, 2010, 10:38:33 AM
Quote from: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 10:08:53 PM
Alexander Zemlinsky and "Carry On Films" British actor Charles Hawtrey

(http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/359_Bard-Summer-Opera-Pr960295.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/12/article-1219942-06BFFE20000005DC-996_233x283.jpg)

This is a really good one. They look alike. :)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: CD on September 03, 2010, 02:08:32 PM
Horatiu Radulescu and Jack Black

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0hh6BMljJzs/RcunD8G6Y4I/AAAAAAAAAFE/i4QaqGwvvsw/s320/HoratiuRadulescu.jpgg) (http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Holiday_the/the_holiday_movie_image_jack_black__1_.jpg)



Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on September 03, 2010, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 10:08:53 PM
Alexander Zemlinsky and "Carry On Films" British actor Charles Hawtrey

(http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/359_Bard-Summer-Opera-Pr960295.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/12/article-1219942-06BFFE20000005DC-996_233x283.jpg)

Very funny - excellent choice.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Josquin des Prez on September 03, 2010, 03:07:38 PM
That's amazing. Ho, and Einstein looks nothing like Grieg. The mustache is all wrong.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on September 03, 2010, 04:16:51 PM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on September 03, 2010, 03:07:38 PM
That's amazing. Ho, and Einstein looks nothing like Grieg. The mustache is all wrong.

Yet another negative comment from GMG's resident psychopath.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Josquin des Prez on September 03, 2010, 06:58:29 PM
I think you need to lighten up a bit.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Bulldog on September 03, 2010, 07:07:43 PM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on September 03, 2010, 03:07:38 PM
That's amazing. Ho, and Einstein looks nothing like Grieg. The mustache is all wrong.

When I first glanced at the two pictures, I thought it was the same guy.  I did have something else on my mind, but still....
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on September 03, 2010, 07:09:42 PM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on September 03, 2010, 06:58:29 PM
I think you need to lighten up a bit.

Lol...definitely the pot calling the kettle black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Josquin des Prez on September 03, 2010, 09:59:36 PM
I am a light as can be given the circumstances of my existence. I even feel light enough to attempt humor every once in a while, thought it would appear i was not too successful at that.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Grazioso on September 04, 2010, 03:56:11 AM
(http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2008/05/Jean_Sibelius_1939.jpg)(http://img.geocaching.com/cache/336ab0a0-db36-4220-9e58-6e347b60ddc0.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on September 04, 2010, 05:08:34 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 03, 2010, 04:16:51 PM
Yet another negative comment from GMG's resident psychopath.
Don't be so hard on yourself.  None of us is perfect.

Quote from: Grazioso on September 04, 2010, 03:56:11 AM
(http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2008/05/Jean_Sibelius_1939.jpg)(http://img.geocaching.com/cache/336ab0a0-db36-4220-9e58-6e347b60ddc0.jpg)
Little known fact:  Although "The Addams Family Theme Song" has become one of Sibelius's most beloved compositions, he doubted that the world was ready for it and very nearly burned it late in life.  Fortunately he grabbed the manuscript of of the Eighth Symphony by mistake and tossed it into the fire instead.



Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: CD on September 04, 2010, 05:26:29 AM
There are girls that look like Justin Bieber, but are there any composers? I'm sure Beethoven's doted-upon nephew was rather Bieberisch.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on September 04, 2010, 05:40:14 AM
Quote from: Corey on September 04, 2010, 05:26:29 AM
There are girls that look like Justin Bieber, but are there any composers? I'm sure Beethoven's doted-upon nephew was rather Bieberisch.
Justin Bieber's not a girl?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Lethevich on September 04, 2010, 05:40:36 AM
(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8922/53b76.jpg) (http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7329/20060111145819robertsch.png)

Schumann is the closest I know of, inb4 the portraits are spurious :'(
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: CD on September 04, 2010, 05:55:14 AM
Quote from: Lethe on September 04, 2010, 05:40:36 AM
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7329/20060111145819robertsch.png)

Was he a Cure fan?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Luke on September 04, 2010, 08:33:45 AM
Quote from: Corey on September 04, 2010, 05:26:29 AM
There are girls that look like Justin Bieber, but are there any composers? I'm sure Beethoven's doted-upon nephew was rather Bieberisch.

I'm very fond of Schubert's Biebermeyer works.

And of course of the Rosary Sonatas for scordatura violin by HIF Bieber
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on September 04, 2010, 04:58:16 PM
Quote from: Grazioso on September 04, 2010, 03:56:11 AM
(http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2008/05/Jean_Sibelius_1939.jpg)(http://img.geocaching.com/cache/336ab0a0-db36-4220-9e58-6e347b60ddc0.jpg)

:D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Superhorn on September 06, 2010, 07:35:22 AM
  Well,leave it to Bieber. 




;)                        ;)                     ;)                            ;)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: MN Dave on September 06, 2010, 07:36:08 AM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on September 04, 2010, 04:58:16 PM
:D

LO-effin-L
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: 12tone. on October 09, 2010, 01:57:48 PM
Wow.  Young Dvorak looks a bit like a certain Nielsen:

Dvorak:

(http://pribek.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dvorak.jpg)

Nielsen:

(http://www2.kb.dk/elib/noder/hcamusik/carl_nielsen.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: 12tone. on October 09, 2010, 02:01:19 PM
LOL!!!   ;D


Ernest Toch: (http://claude.torres1.perso.sfr.fr/ExilVienne/Toch/TochErnst4.jpg)

Kramer: (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IGiaEWUG_gI/SDtUgGxvrTI/AAAAAAAAAB4/B-FUY7Fij2Y/s400/Kramer.jpg)

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 09, 2010, 04:32:04 PM

Rubinstein
(http://www.halftimescores.co.uk/images/pc07a/fs7027.jpg)
Beethoven
(http://www.start-american-sign-language.com/images/beethoven-21254947.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on October 09, 2010, 08:08:54 PM
Quote from: 12tone. on October 09, 2010, 01:57:48 PM
Wow.  Young Dvorak looks a bit like a certain Nielsen:

Dvorak:

(http://pribek.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dvorak.jpg)

Nielsen:

(http://www2.kb.dk/elib/noder/hcamusik/carl_nielsen.jpg)

They look nothing alike.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Grazioso on October 10, 2010, 05:25:17 AM
(http://www.iconsofeurope.com/nielsen1.gif)
Nielsen
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Rleeermeygfdl.PNG/250px-Rleeermeygfdl.PNG)
R. Lee Ermey
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Sergeant Rock on October 10, 2010, 06:04:06 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 09, 2010, 08:08:54 PM

They look nothing alike.

Put a mustache on Nielsen, darken his hair and, at least from this angle, there is a resemblance  ;D

(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/july2010/dvoraknielsen2.jpg)

Sarge
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: 12tone. on October 10, 2010, 12:01:06 PM
You guys would not believe this!!!   :o


Tchaikovsky: (http://www.pianoparadise.com/Tchaikovsky.jpg)


Our own GMG Harry!: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidW on October 10, 2010, 12:24:31 PM
This should drive jdp mad: Phil Collins vs Beethoven ;D

(http://www.nndb.com/people/587/000022521/collins-phil-photo-phil-collins-6202244.jpg)

(http://www.thebuzzinbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/beethoven.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DarkAngel on October 10, 2010, 01:22:06 PM
(http://www.sungdukviolin.com/ravel.jpg)  (http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060927/133027__martin_l.jpg)

Ravel -> Martin Scorsese
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Josquin des Prez on October 10, 2010, 01:24:13 PM
Quote from: DarkAngel on October 10, 2010, 01:22:06 PM
(http://www.sungdukviolin.com/ravel.jpg)  (http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060927/133027__martin_l.jpg)

Ravel -> Martin Scorsese

Nice one.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on October 10, 2010, 05:00:47 PM
Debussy     and           John Rhys-Davies
(http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/Debussy%5B1%5D.jpg) (http://www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/stars/John_Rhys-Davies.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on October 10, 2010, 05:05:51 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 10, 2010, 06:04:06 AM
Put a mustache on Nielsen, darken his hair and, at least from this angle, there is a resemblance  ;D

(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/july2010/dvoraknielsen2.jpg)

Sarge

Not from where I'm sitting. Look around the eyes. Nielsen's are quite sunken in and his nose is more rounded off. Like I said, they don't share any resemblance whatsoever.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 10, 2010, 05:05:52 PM
Chopin

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Chopin-scheffer.jpg) Shopping (http://www.musicnotables.co.uk/images/products-large/chopin-bag.jpg)



Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 10, 2010, 05:10:16 PM
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/al-pacino-totally-looks-like-leonard-cohen.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 10, 2010, 05:11:52 PM
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/c3559e26-a18e-48c7-ae89-e47bdc1ce094.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 10, 2010, 05:14:02 PM
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/f1c1cfeb-090c-4462-bf7b-36cc28dc2fa7.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on October 10, 2010, 05:29:47 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on October 10, 2010, 05:19:33 PM
Alban Berg   and   Paul McCartney
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKAdnEQfTf4_SQsg_Z1nh1WkPU8NLhRuU5WoWGu2mEU0fnJTM&t=1&usg=__0w6dYZKdN5ERnxmQjSIEyMVuE7E=)(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIUwcbFop1NKQqpibFmvnKlXk4RbgOSBXDIVfo1OhMhKex2E0&t=1&usg=__Qq1r_C0wWI5GnRm20X5IpM3j1Gw=)

Not even close.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 10, 2010, 05:31:03 PM
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/82d58e0b-b305-4d6c-ae78-ee946ab1d31d.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on October 10, 2010, 05:31:15 PM
Alban Berg      and      Christopher Walken
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgRU6vovK8_Zf7kr6kM7ukuHuKrrqzWOZxjCFntpmqXxLY8p4&t=1&usg=__3C7WdO-yxllPwVZDJCvbrz4lx-Y=)(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQpNVZ-MzMYmo4mq8qxj-cuQYmKaxyaIoXIOz6k4mgVFHmRYU&t=1&usg=__k7BoiX4Cn587DypLl3VbRj4NtVw=)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on October 10, 2010, 05:32:05 PM
Alban Berg     and    Oscar Wilde
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSEQzloHwrvn_5j_Ss_LjWEJtBRnM7lcabK3QP_SINSSmzvRH8&t=1&usg=__k_DupaH_sTQL1IsRRHq8TMLXvPc=)(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTXcm9IhfDsOlmmjc61H39pfa8EaHUzncJpO1KZ88K_ZWLNhxM&t=1&usg=__vFAxkq5qBeUeAUSdvQi7_M9DQZM=)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on October 10, 2010, 05:32:41 PM
Alban Berg   and   Paul McCartney
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKAdnEQfTf4_SQsg_Z1nh1WkPU8NLhRuU5WoWGu2mEU0fnJTM&t=1&usg=__0w6dYZKdN5ERnxmQjSIEyMVuE7E=)(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIUwcbFop1NKQqpibFmvnKlXk4RbgOSBXDIVfo1OhMhKex2E0&t=1&usg=__Qq1r_C0wWI5GnRm20X5IpM3j1Gw=)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on October 10, 2010, 05:40:37 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on October 10, 2010, 05:32:41 PM
Alban Berg   and   Paul McCartney
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKAdnEQfTf4_SQsg_Z1nh1WkPU8NLhRuU5WoWGu2mEU0fnJTM&t=1&usg=__0w6dYZKdN5ERnxmQjSIEyMVuE7E=)(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTIUwcbFop1NKQqpibFmvnKlXk4RbgOSBXDIVfo1OhMhKex2E0&t=1&usg=__Qq1r_C0wWI5GnRm20X5IpM3j1Gw=)

Again, not even close. :)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidW on October 10, 2010, 05:51:07 PM
I wonder if that is our Florestan, or someone else's Florestan?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 10, 2010, 05:53:58 PM
Quote from: DavidW on October 10, 2010, 05:51:07 PM
I wonder if that is our Florestan, or someone else's Florestan?

Yes that's the first thing that I thought... :)

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: 12tone. on October 10, 2010, 06:32:44 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 10, 2010, 05:05:51 PM

Not from where I'm sitting. Look around the eyes. Nielsen's are quite sunken in and his nose is more rounded off. Like I said, they don't share any resemblance whatsoever.

Wow.  Tough crowd.  You need to chill out.  Just relax.  Sip some lemonade. 
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on October 10, 2010, 08:19:17 PM
Quote from: 12tone. on October 10, 2010, 06:32:44 PM
Wow.  Tough crowd.  You need to chill out.  Just relax.  Sip some lemonade.

You're the one who should relax. I'm just pointing out that the young Dvorak doesn't look anything like Nielsen. Anybody with two eyes can tell this.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on October 11, 2010, 08:46:58 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 10, 2010, 08:19:17 PM

You're the one who should relax. I'm just pointing out that the young Dvorak doesn't look anything like Nielsen. Anybody with two eyes can tell this.
Just as anyone with two eyes can see the resemblance between McCartney & Berg?  ;)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: snyprrr on October 11, 2010, 12:27:09 PM
Quote from: DavidW on October 10, 2010, 12:24:31 PM
This should drive jdp mad: Phil Collins vs Beethoven ;D

(http://www.nndb.com/people/587/000022521/collins-phil-photo-phil-collins-6202244.jpg)

(http://www.thebuzzinbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/beethoven.jpg)

LvB looks like a combo of Ewen macGregar and Colin Farrell (oy, what a bad movie thaaat would be!)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Benji on October 11, 2010, 03:55:10 PM
Oh man this is the most hilarious thread ever, i'm in tears at Sibelius and Uncle Fester.

Here's some i've noticed:

(http://www.sibelius.fi/kuvituskuvat/einar_englund.gif)
John Malkovich

(http://www.moviestarsmovies.com/Images/JohnMalkovich.jpg)
Einar Englund

http://www.classicalcdreview.com/emireiner.jpg

(http://www.classicalcdreview.com/emireiner.jpg)
Count Dracula

(http://www.willisms.com/archives/dracula.jpg)
Fritz Reiner

(http://www.thing.net/~grist/golpub/fowler/berio/beriohea.jpg)
Elvis Costello

(http://www.bobgruen.com/files/asst/R.146%20ELVIS%20COSTELLO-POLE%2077.jpg)
Luciano Berio
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on October 11, 2010, 04:39:37 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on October 11, 2010, 08:46:58 AM
Just as anyone with two eyes can see the resemblance between McCartney & Berg?  ;)

Yep. I see it...
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Dancing Divertimentian on October 11, 2010, 04:41:25 PM
Quote from: Benji on October 11, 2010, 03:55:10 PM


(http://www.classicalcdreview.com/emireiner.jpg)
Count Dracula

(http://www.willisms.com/archives/dracula.jpg)
Fritz Reiner

LOL!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Superhorn on October 12, 2010, 06:43:40 AM
  Respighi bears a striking resemblance to the great film actor Edward G. Robinson.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on October 12, 2010, 10:34:23 AM
Quote from: Superhorn on October 12, 2010, 06:43:40 AM
  Respighi bears a striking resemblance to the great film actor Edward G. Robinson.
Now that they're both dead?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Beetzart on October 12, 2010, 11:11:28 AM
Bach and his sons  :D :D :D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: 12tone. on October 12, 2010, 04:20:39 PM
 :o ;D


Young Debussy: (http://thales.cica.es/rd/Recursos/rd99/ed99-0248-01/debussy1.gif)


Jack Black:  (http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Jack_Black.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: SonicMan46 on October 13, 2010, 08:32:35 AM
Today, Jens posted a recording of Rautavaara - reminded me of Jack Benny in his younger days - just add a hat!  :D


(http://giradman.smugmug.com/Other/Miscellaneous/Rautavaara/1046381764_rdMiz-O.jpg)  (http://giradman.smugmug.com/Other/Miscellaneous/benny-jack/1046381785_cFodK-O.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brian on October 13, 2010, 11:08:44 AM
Funny you should mention that! When I saw Jens' post, I thought of someone else:

Quote from: SonicMan on October 13, 2010, 08:32:35 AM
Today, Jens posted a recording of Rautavaara - reminded me of Jack Benny in his younger days - just add a hat!  :D


(http://giradman.smugmug.com/Other/Miscellaneous/Rautavaara/1046381764_rdMiz-O.jpg)  (http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/38528-3_humphrey_bogart.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Saul on October 13, 2010, 04:38:12 PM
(http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/11/17/128713993583533619.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Dax on December 22, 2010, 02:19:21 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s6zY8-yAuYc/SUs3_msduuI/AAAAAAAABtI/4ghMcJBqvso/s400/Face+of+Radovan+Karadzic+Serb+War+Criminal+on+Trial.jpg)(http://kathrynwoodard.com/images/saygun.jpg)
                             Saygun                                                                                Karadzic
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on December 23, 2010, 01:16:59 PM
Quote from: SonicMan on October 13, 2010, 08:32:35 AM
Today, Jens posted a recording of Rautavaara - reminded me of Jack Benny in his younger days - just add a hat!  :D


(http://giradman.smugmug.com/Other/Miscellaneous/Rautavaara/1046381764_rdMiz-O.jpg)  (http://giradman.smugmug.com/Other/Miscellaneous/benny-jack/1046381785_cFodK-O.jpg)


This is pretty dang close! Good job!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on December 31, 2010, 08:02:48 PM
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfIN2mFmJlSvSGPl0wLVscIklTJNgCl3aNUGIHC_Sn61VuPQNR2w)(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ12TYQly5YwAhOHe9JS3IHwrLzh-p4DbUiuDxAhaRtq9gE7-Op)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Scarpia on December 31, 2010, 08:23:45 PM
Quote from: 12tone. on October 12, 2010, 04:20:39 PM
:o ;D


Young Debussy: (http://thales.cica.es/rd/Recursos/rd99/ed99-0248-01/debussy1.gif)


I think Debussy looks like our Brian.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: PaulSC on January 12, 2011, 12:09:36 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EJTDKHJSL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://leoblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/kd-lang-hallelujah.jpg)

Freddy Kempf, K.D. Lang
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidRoss on January 12, 2011, 02:13:33 PM
Quote from: PaulSC on January 12, 2011, 12:09:36 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EJTDKHJSL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://leoblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/kd-lang-hallelujah.jpg)

Freddy Kempf, K.D. Lang
I thought exactly the same when Jens posted that cover!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brian on January 16, 2011, 09:42:53 AM
It's not a similarity of facial features on this one, but a similarity of facial expressions.

(http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/Obam_415.jpg)

(http://www.leninimports.com/sibelius_gallery_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: CD on January 16, 2011, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: Brian on January 16, 2011, 09:42:53 AM
It's not a similarity of facial features on this one, but a similarity of facial expressions.

(http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/Obam_415.jpg)

(http://www.leninimports.com/sibelius_gallery_1.jpg)

(http://i52.tinypic.com/14tnamc.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Lethevich on January 16, 2011, 10:55:58 AM
All I can imagine from seeing those three images is a mass outburst of high-end flatulence ;)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Henk on January 16, 2011, 11:18:31 AM
Quote from: Lethe on January 16, 2011, 10:55:58 AM
All I can imagine from seeing those three images is a mass outburst of high-end flatulence ;)

;D ;D

The feminist reaction? ???

Who is that second man? Also a politician?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brian on January 16, 2011, 12:14:06 PM
Quote from: Henk on January 16, 2011, 11:18:31 AM
Who is that second man? Also a politician?
:o :o This is the "composer look-alike" thread.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Henk on January 16, 2011, 12:16:49 PM
Quote from: Brian on January 16, 2011, 12:14:06 PM
:o :o This is the "composer look-alike" thread.

You never know with you, Brian, breaking the rules of the thread ;).

Bruckner?

I made that comment, because I wondered if it was a typical expression of a politician? What would the composer's state of mind and thoughts with it?
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Henk on January 16, 2011, 12:19:24 PM
It's Sibelius :P. Sibelius looked so much different at older age.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brian on July 15, 2011, 02:50:51 AM
Grow a mustache, Jiri, grow a mustache!
(Tonight I get to see the fellow on the left conduct the fellow on the right!)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Amfortas on July 15, 2011, 04:21:58 AM
The great composer, Dmitri Potter  :P [sorry if it's already been posted]

(http://www.meetthecomposers.org/wp-content/Harry_Shostakovich.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Grazioso on July 15, 2011, 04:54:11 AM
Ronnie Wood and Leonard Bernstein

(http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/ronnie-wood_344x344.jpg)(http://www.focusdep.com/images/Leonard_Bernstein_1175028525032776.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: snyprrr on July 15, 2011, 06:22:06 AM
Quote from: Grazioso on July 15, 2011, 04:54:11 AM
Ronnie Wood and Leonard Bernstein

(http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/ronnie-wood_344x344.jpg)(http://www.focusdep.com/images/Leonard_Bernstein_1175028525032776.jpg)

Nah,... Ronnie Wood looks like Jeff Beck, and Bernstein looks like Richard Burton.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Grazioso on July 15, 2011, 09:18:06 AM
Quote from: snyprrr on July 15, 2011, 06:22:06 AM
Nah,... Ronnie Wood looks like Jeff Beck, and Bernstein looks like Richard Burton.

Bah, the image didn't show. Let me try again:

(http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/ronnie-wood_344x344.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Leonard_Bernstein_by_Jack_Mitchell.jpg)

Other than the eyes, the similarities in facial structure are striking.

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: springrite on October 27, 2011, 08:24:39 PM
OK, not composer look-alikes, but musician look-alikes. I am watching the world series and it seems to be that Lance Berkman looks a lot like Richardo Chailly!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Lisztianwagner on October 29, 2011, 09:44:17 AM
Quote from: Amfortas on July 15, 2011, 04:21:58 AM
The great composer, Dmitri Potter  :P [sorry if it's already been posted]

(http://www.meetthecomposers.org/wp-content/Harry_Shostakovich.jpg)

This one is very funny  :)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: madaboutmahler on October 29, 2011, 09:54:32 AM
What a fun topic! Particularly liked the Zemlinsky one, they look close to exactly the same!

I've always thought my head teacher at school looks exactly like Sibelius...
I'll see if I can find a picture...
(http://www.cheshamgrammar.bucks.sch.uk/assets/images/pwayne.png)
Mr Wayne

(http://www.geh.org/ne/str085/m198130600016.jpg)
Sibelius

Maybe not the best pictures for comparison - but sometimes they do look very very alike!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Lisztianwagner on October 29, 2011, 09:58:15 AM
Gustav Mahler - Erwin Schrödinger  :)

(http://www.antoniabrancati.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Ronald-Harwood-Il-battesimo-di-Mahler.jpg)  (http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/228542/350wm/H4190337-Erwin_Schrodinger-SPL.jpg)

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Opus106 on October 29, 2011, 10:17:00 AM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on October 29, 2011, 09:58:15 AM
Gustav Mahler - Erwin Schrödinger  :)

(http://www.antoniabrancati.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Ronald-Harwood-Il-battesimo-di-Mahler.jpg)  (http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/228542/350wm/H4190337-Erwin_Schrodinger-SPL.jpg)

Hehe... I was actually looking for a nice pair of similar-looking pictures a few weeks ago. Looks like you found it! ;D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Lisztianwagner on October 29, 2011, 10:44:23 AM
Quote from: Opus106 on October 29, 2011, 10:17:00 AM
Hehe... I was actually looking for a nice pair of similar-looking pictures a few weeks ago. Looks like you found it! ;D

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brahmsian on October 29, 2011, 11:27:17 AM
Hehe!

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-da_2ZgXDxQA/Tbidf-QL2SI/AAAAAAAAK54/7nT8CRwq4P0/s1600/brahms.jpg)(http://www.lookalike.com/lookalikes/images/santa-clause.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Brahmsian on October 29, 2011, 11:40:47 AM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on October 29, 2011, 09:54:32 AM


(http://www.geh.org/ne/str085/m198130600016.jpg)
Sibelius


This face absolutely must be included in the composer version of Mount Rushmore, without a doubt!  8)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: madaboutmahler on October 30, 2011, 04:13:52 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on October 29, 2011, 11:40:47 AM
This face absolutely must be included in the composer version of Mount Rushmore, without a doubt!  8)

haha  ;D

I love this thread!  :D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: petrarch on October 30, 2011, 06:27:58 AM
(http://static.whatsontv.co.uk/images/10430_161913_LaurenceFox.jpg)
(http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/stockhausen-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Sef on November 01, 2011, 10:51:38 AM
(http://www.artsjournal.com/lifesapitch/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Screen-shot-2011-09-16-at-9.25.02-AM.png)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: snyprrr on November 01, 2011, 11:49:12 AM
Quote from: Sef on November 01, 2011, 10:51:38 AM
(http://www.artsjournal.com/lifesapitch/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Screen-shot-2011-09-16-at-9.25.02-AM.png)

Compelling...hmmm...
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Marc on November 02, 2011, 11:48:21 AM
Quote from: toucan on October 29, 2011, 05:22:07 PM
Nietzsche (who was also a composer) - unidentified silent film actor

(http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m465/Phil1_05/Misc/A-Nietzsche.jpg)(http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m465/Phil1_05/Misc/ANWCFields.jpg)

The actor is Ben Turpin, one the world's most famous cross-eyed (silent) film actors.
He had a habit of introducing himself with I'm Ben Turpin and I make $3000 a week.
(Nietzsche didn't.)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: bwv 1080 on November 02, 2011, 01:54:37 PM
Quote from: toucan on October 29, 2011, 05:22:07 PM
Sibelius

(http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m465/Phil1_05/Misc/a-Sibelius.jpg)



or
(http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/3153/PreviewComp/SuperStock_3153-820221.jpg)

the horror, the horror
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Marc on November 05, 2011, 03:09:49 AM
Yeah, you got me there. :-[
Italics not well chosen.
(It was meant to refer to the bloody money and to the bloody money alone.)

Oh, besides that: I like Ben Turpin.
If this means I'm not intelligent, so be it. Is it intelligent to 'discuss' composer-look-alikes on the internet?

(Nietzsche sold a lot of funny crap, too. Besides that: I like him. He loved horses. Although that might be just another funny story.)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Opus106 on January 07, 2012, 11:01:03 PM
Quote from: toucan on January 07, 2012, 10:49:19 PM
Mitsuko Uchida-Sandra Oh; I mean, Sandra oh-Mitsuko Uchida; I mean... you figure it out

Wow! That's one of the best resemblances posted so far.

(http://venus.provocateuse.com/images/photos/sandra_oh_04.jpg)(http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m465/Phil1_05/Misc/uchida8.png)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Kontrapunctus on January 08, 2012, 09:24:32 AM
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-quaker-oats-guy-totally-looks-like-jimmy-page.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: snyprrr on January 09, 2012, 06:51:13 AM
Quote from: Toccata&Fugue on January 08, 2012, 09:24:32 AM
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/the-quaker-oats-guy-totally-looks-like-jimmy-page.jpg)

LOLZ!!!! :D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: EigenUser on May 25, 2014, 08:34:09 AM
Maybe it's the wig?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Joseph_Haydn.jpg/190px-Joseph_Haydn.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg/200px-Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Moonfish on May 25, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
Quote from: EigenUser on May 25, 2014, 08:34:09 AM
Maybe it's the wig?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Joseph_Haydn.jpg/190px-Joseph_Haydn.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg/200px-Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg)
I did not not know that Haydn was president.....          :D >:D

I bet if you did a street survey in the US people would go 50/50 between those two pictures...   
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Ken B on May 25, 2014, 12:19:20 PM
Quote from: Moonfish on May 25, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
I did not not that Haydn was president.....          :D >:D

I bet if you did a street survey in the US people would go 50/50 between those two pictures...
I carry a picture of Washington with me almost always.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Moonfish on May 25, 2014, 12:28:09 PM
Quote from: Ken B on May 25, 2014, 12:19:20 PM
I carry a picture of Washington with me almost always.

I thought you carried a picture of Hogwood!   ???
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Ken B on May 25, 2014, 01:04:43 PM
Quote from: Moonfish on May 25, 2014, 12:28:09 PM
I thought you carried a picture of Hogwood!   ???
If you send me $5 I'll send you a Washington portrait, AND toss in a Lincoln engraving free.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Yan on December 22, 2014, 03:19:23 PM
Prokofiev and Puyi(China's last emperor)(http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/tzamp/20101216011723/zdbpath/composerpix/115.jpg)
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02313/Pu-Yi_2313175b.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: VonStupp on July 04, 2022, 06:56:33 AM
A post today sent me straight to google images.

American composer Peter Mennin and actor Peter Sellers:

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V4ffrqlNhDk/maxresdefault.jpg)   (https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2009/204/1378_124843742528.jpg)

Perhaps it is the same pensive stare to the left.  ;D

VS
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: VonStupp on July 10, 2022, 10:29:52 AM
Seeing a WAYL2N post today sent me straight to Google Images:

György Ligeti and Gary Busey. Too much of a stretch?

VS

(https://images.universal-music.de/img/assets/129/129311/195/gyorgy-ligeti-clear-or-cloudy-0028947764430.jpg)  (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/f1/20/77f120fe921452cf609b9ccfe3e093f6.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on July 10, 2022, 03:59:02 PM
Good shots, VonStupp! The second guy looks like Boris Johnson as well.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Mirror Image on July 10, 2022, 07:01:54 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on July 10, 2022, 03:59:02 PM
Good shots, VonStupp! The second guy looks like Boris Johnson as well.

The second guy would be Gary Busey. :)

(https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/yDvzYt311nry5mttJIsl9ZgeRjw=/1200x969/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/QFFBF63QIUMJOU5ONFRHKHCEM4.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: VonStupp on July 11, 2022, 05:40:18 AM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on July 10, 2022, 03:59:02 PM
Good shots, VonStupp! The second guy looks like Boris Johnson as well.

Perhaps better for the Boris Johnson thread, many comparison shots have been made between Johnson and Gary Busey. It must be the hair:

(https://i.redd.it/w9wan7cpr6541.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Maestro267 on July 11, 2022, 08:50:12 AM
Not sure if Max Reger and Richard Hickox has been done yet. But if not...that.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: KlassiskDronning on July 14, 2022, 01:48:36 AM
What about that Dmetri guy and Harry Potter? Lol
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Biffo on July 14, 2022, 07:38:32 AM
Sir Robert Birley (1903 - 1982) was an educationalist and Headmaster of Eton College. Despite being a pillar of the establishment he acquired the nickname 'Red Robert'. According to Wikipedia this was because his mildly liberal politics caused disquiet; I read a different account several years ago in a review of biography.

Shortly after the end of WW2 Birley was sent to Germany to help reconstruction in the British Zone. He had a visitor from London who was alarmed to see a portrait of Karl Marx on his office wall; he said nothing but word soon got round back in London that Birley had turned communist, hence the nickname. In fact, Birley was temporarily using a colleague's office and the portrait was of Johannes Brahms. Nevertheless, the silly nickname stuck (probably as a joke).
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on August 28, 2022, 12:56:52 PM
André Caplet - Rupert Grint (the famous Ronald Weasley)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxF3QgI2j8I/X7mgYcJg2kI/AAAAAAAAkPU/T_49TGl5ROM6iDd5YvWBj7L9Gpoj6oA6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w496-h640/artworks-000196060220-a8bm6p-t500x500.jpg)(https://bolavip.com/__export/1609540951706/sites/bolavip/img/2021/01/01/rupert_grint_harry_potter_ron_weasley_vuelve_crop1609540682227.jpg_1159711837.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on August 28, 2022, 01:09:50 PM
Lou Harrison - Yes, that guy!  ;D

(https://www.edition-peters.com/persImages/royale/573031393239_01.JPG)(https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AMLnZu8P2awKM7l1NLFCLAYjc_GQV0aHIN010gTfFWqH=s900-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj)

To me, they kind of look alike.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on August 30, 2022, 12:36:04 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on August 28, 2022, 12:56:52 PM
André Caplet - Rupert Grint (the famous Ronald Weasley)

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxF3QgI2j8I/X7mgYcJg2kI/AAAAAAAAkPU/T_49TGl5ROM6iDd5YvWBj7L9Gpoj6oA6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w496-h640/artworks-000196060220-a8bm6p-t500x500.jpg)(https://bolavip.com/__export/1609540951706/sites/bolavip/img/2021/01/01/rupert_grint_harry_potter_ron_weasley_vuelve_crop1609540682227.jpg_1159711837.jpg)
Remarkably similar!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on August 30, 2022, 12:47:28 PM
Actor Andrew Cruickshank and Vaughan Williams
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vers la flamme on September 04, 2023, 01:59:55 PM
Kōbō Abe

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTI4ODFiNjMtZTEwMS00YWMzLWIxODEtZGVjMTJlZmQ3MGQ2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTc4MzI2NQ@@._V1_.jpg)

Morton Feldman

(https://myscena.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Bogaerts-Rob-Anefo.jpeg)

Different nationalities aside... hope I'm not the only one who sees it  ;D
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DavidW on September 04, 2023, 02:37:05 PM
That is uncanny!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on September 10, 2023, 12:09:33 PM
Quote from: Klaatu on September 02, 2010, 10:08:53 PMAlexander Zemlinsky and "Carry On Films" British actor Charles Hawtrey

(http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/359_Bard-Summer-Opera-Pr960295.jpg) (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/12/article-1219942-06BFFE20000005DC-996_233x283.jpg)
Brilliant!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on September 10, 2023, 04:52:13 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on September 10, 2023, 12:09:33 PMBrilliant!

Strikingly similar indeed!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DaveF on September 11, 2023, 09:16:11 AM
(http://missmediablog.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1-Portrait-photographique-d%E2%80%99Ambroise-Thomas-collections-BM-Metz.jpg)

If I saw that picture, I would immediately think "Verdi" - but no, it's a somewhat less celebrated 19th-century opera composer, Ambroise Thomas.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Iota on September 11, 2023, 10:16:14 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on September 10, 2023, 12:09:33 PMBrilliant!

Yes indeed!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on September 11, 2023, 09:20:59 PM
Would I be very odd if I said Ruth Gipps and Richard Arnell look alike?

(https://i0.wp.com/saskatoonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/4c5cbe-20210824-ruth-gipps-976.jpeg?fit=976%2C1349&ssl=1)(https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw114842/Richard-Anthony-Sayer-Arnell.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on September 11, 2023, 09:23:06 PM
Some time ago I had done this on Tubin's thread:

Eduard Tubin and York Bowen.

Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on September 12, 2023, 07:08:59 AM
Tom Courtenay in 'Dr Zhivago' and the young Shostakovich:
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: AnotherSpin on September 12, 2023, 07:59:41 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on September 12, 2023, 07:08:59 AMTom Courtenay in 'Dr Zhivago' and the young Shostakovich:


and Harry Potter
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Roasted Swan on September 12, 2023, 08:39:55 AM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on September 11, 2023, 09:20:59 PMWould I be very odd if I said Ruth Gipps and Richard Arnell look alike?

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The acid test - were they ever seen in the same room together.......???!! just sayin'
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: vandermolen on September 12, 2023, 10:07:02 AM
Quote from: AnotherSpin on September 12, 2023, 07:59:41 AMand Harry Potter
Indeed!
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on September 17, 2023, 02:50:26 PM
Géza Anda - Bernard Herrmann

(https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000220798532-06i0ds-t500x500.jpg)(https://www.bandassonorasdecine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Bernard-Herrmann-mp3-image.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Symphonic Addict on October 14, 2023, 08:38:25 PM
Respighi / Doráti

(https://sitecoreaudioprod.umusicpub.com/sitecore_media/12015362-184D-4C47-844B-DEACA088F6AF.jpg?cc=98201651156AM)(https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/d/fotos/dorati.jpg)
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: Irons on October 15, 2023, 11:30:44 PM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on October 14, 2023, 08:38:25 PMRespighi / Doráti

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Hair is mirror image.
Title: Re: Composer Look-Alikes
Post by: DaveF on April 08, 2025, 11:00:42 PM
At Peter Grimes in Cardiff last night, I was struck by the extraordinary resemblance between Nicky Spence in the title role and the late lamented Leif Segerstam:
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