Composer Lookalikes

[Beef Oven]

Rehabilitating Bernard Manning

To many people Bernard Manning was a pariah, but wouldn't they change their minds if they knew he wrote those jolly string symphonies and The Barber of Seville?

[Petrushka]

Confession time: Shostakovich could be my twin brother - and no I'm not putting up a photo to prove it!

I think Sir Edward Downes was told that he looked like Shostakovich...by DSCH himself! Can someone confirm this story which I think Sir Edward told in a TV interview?

[Nick Armstrong]

At first glance?

Long beyond the first glance: that's perfect!!

And have you noticed, you never saw them in the same room together..?

I wonder...

[amateur51]

To many people Bernard Manning was a pariah, but wouldn't they change their minds if they knew he wrote those jolly string symphonies and The Barber of Seville?

Bernard Msanning had a nice tenor singing voice and cut several songs for Decca. I remember Pete Murray playing some on his Sunday night show on LBC aeons ago

I can't find examples anywhere

[EdgeleyRob]

Shostakovich / Harry Potter ?

http://qso.com.au/composer-lookalike

[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]

[Nick Armstrong]

[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