Which composer are you most like?

[Anna]

Perhaps you could take turns being Clara ....?

Aha, no need for all that love triangle now!! Two further quizzes both say I am not Schumann but Rachmaninov: A complex and passionate individual: romantic, but reserved; brilliant, but insecure; a lover of the trappings of modern life, yet ever nostalgic for the past. And he evidently weren't too keen on old Johannes! In fact it's reminded me of how much I love his music and I've got out my Neeme Jarvi Francesca da Rimini, Aleko, etc., and my boxed set of Mariss Jansons

[mangerton]

Just for fun I tried WETA (Shurely that should be for cereals) and CFM, and they both said Bach, who is certainly one of my favourites.

[Pianorak]

Isaac Albéniz - without the beard, cigar and without the talent. By the time he had reached 12, he had made many attempts to run away from home.

[Serial_Apologist]

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They appear to be sharing a joke!

But what a remarkable photo. Most early photos seem to depict wooden, doll-like people, lending them a distinctly alien character; but this is not at all the case with this one and the others on the rare shots of composers thread.

[Mary Chambers]

I've done a few more, and now as well as Shostakovich and Schumann I am
Tchaikovsky, Debussy, John Cage and Rachmaninoff. Multifaceted, obviously.

You can tell I have too much spare time.

These quizzes are mostly American and full of questions I can't answer, usually on the subject of popular culture.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Highly valued on Through the Night, which must mean something

Ah ... back in the day ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But what a remarkable photo. Most early photos seem to depict wooden, doll-like people, lending them a distinctly alien character; but this is not at all the case with this one and the others on the rare shots of composers thread.

Yes - didn't the earliest photographs require a long exposure time, so that the only facial pose one could hold comfortably was the "flat", wooden (and frankly miserable-looking) one? When shorter exposure times became available, everyone cheered up - there's even a snapshot of Queen Victoria looking distinctly amused with one of her grandchildren.

[eighthobstruction]

Bit of a fanciful one, this. Triggered by something AMcG said on Record Review this morning.

It isn’t really about (or rather, only about) liking their music - it’s ‘which composer ARE you most like?’ - not ‘do you most like’.

Is there a composer whose personality (as far as one can understand it), attitudes, reported quotes, lifestyle, etc., as well as their music, give you a sense of a sort of common identity?

Increasingly, I think I am Brahms…

....Willy Nelson.....

[Pianorak]

According to WETA: J S Bach, but CFM says: L van Beethoven.

[BBMmk2]

I feel I have a lot of composers I like(as far as music is concerned), but as to how I am like a composer, that's a different matter entirely!

[ardcarp]

How many composers has WETA got in its database? Six? (Though probably not Les Six....)

[Nick Armstrong]

How many composers has WETA got in its database? Six? (Though probably not Les Six....)

And what the hell is WETA anyway?

(For the avoidance of doubt, I had no idea of the existence of these various 'who are you?' quizzes when starting this thread!)

[usher]

And what the hell is WETA anyway?

(For the avoidance of doubt, I had no idea of the existence of these various 'who are you?' quizzes when starting this thread!)

It seems to be a classical music radio station and not the New Zealand visual effects company for which my son works.

[teamsaint]

I'm Hildegard of Bingen, without a doubt.

(Spellcheck thinks I mean Hinge - & Bracket, presumably!)

a Golden Post.

I don't think I will ever hear her music in quite the same way now.

[Cornet IV]

[QUOTE=Caliban;538325][COLOR="#0000FF"]And what the hell is WETA anyway?QUOTE]

The horse-headed weta (pronounced "wetta") is the largest insect in the world and native to New Zealand. Norra lotta people know that.

It is a frightfully menacing-looking ceature; I have spent a lifetime being terrified half to death by this awful thing. Mercifully, it does not compose and in consequence I could not possibly bear any visual resemblance to this horror. However, if the species were to decompose, I should be delighted.