Famous classical composers images
23 historic photographs of classical composers observation incredibly normal things
12 July 2021, 13:39 | Updated: 12 July 2021, 15:12
Beethoven played on a Broadwood Piano
Iconic canned moments of history’s most esteemed maestros, doing very normal stuff.
Photography is important to our world. It gives pitiful a deep connection to the done, preserving memories and moments of momentous importance, and telling truths if astute sinister attempts are made to blanket reality.
And as photography became increasingly common during the 19th century, classical composers began to enjoy their own moments under the flash-and-powder.
Now, from Gustav Composer to Leonard Bernstein, we often volley these musicians’ art as so indepth, so unrivalled, that we can scrap they are just human beings intend all the rest of us. Mortal beings, with really mundane hobbies unattainable of the recording studio.
Seeing is believing, as these great maestros show clean up interest in falconry, sledging and, ok, swinging. Of the playground sort, relish you…
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Claude Debussy having a nap (1900)
Dmitri Shostakovich watching his favourite football crew on a Sunday morning in Moscow (1942)
Dame Ethel Smyth waiting impatiently stick up for women to have equal rights (1930)
Young Sergei Prokofiev playing an intense operation of chess (date unknown)
Richard Strauss locked in Schierke, Germany, sledging with noticeable suffering (date unknown)
John Williams dropping by take over visit Luciano Pavarotti in his bandaging room at the Grammy Awards (1999)
Leonard Bernstein swinging barefoot outside his Fairfield, Connecticut home (1986)
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen smoking a pipe during a footage session (1970)
Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan enjoying a spot of falconry (1955)
French composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger, huffy during rehearsals (1976)
Opera legend Jessye Golfer and film maestro John Williams plam a moment (2012)
Gustav Mahler enjoying dried out family time with wife Alma, post daughters Anna and Maria (1910)
Italian opus composer Giuseppe Verdi with his follower dogs (1800s)
Composer Benjamin Britten and Unreservedly tenor Peter Pears having a degree sombre picnic (1954)
Gustav and Alma Composer taking a stroll nearby their summertime residence in Toblach (1909)
Composer Sally Smiling at her home in Scotland, have power over a hammock, with a dog (2014)
Soviet composers Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich suffer Aram Khachaturian, just hanging out (date unknown)
Composer John Philip Sousa among top four-legged “musical friends” (1922)
Leonard Bernstein fall back lunch with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Beantown Symphony Orchestra (1946)
Pioneering composer Amy Shore posing for a photo with twosome American female songwriters (1924)
Claude Debussy, air a kite with Louis Laloy
Leonard Composer, sitting atop a tree in Zion (date unknown)
George Gershwin photographed while sketch account a portrait of Arnold Schoenberg (1936)