Something on the intellectual side... or not...

Often times on this blog I try to add an intellectual element to my writing, discussing historical and philosophical aspects of music in addition to simply recapping what's been going on in my own musical career as of late. I've been thinking of topics I could write on that might be intellectually stimulating: composers who have influenced me in terms of style and technique, my preffered methods of notation and how this affects orchestration, etc. Instead of all that, this is what I came up with - 

FAMOUS COMPOSERS AND THEIR MEME FACE COUNTERPARTS 

So without further interruption, I give you...


LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Innovate radical harmonic and structural ideas and change of the face of music forever... like a boss.


FRANZ LISZT

I betcha can't play that...

GUSTAV MAHLER

Strikingly brilliant, but also incredibly depressed

W.A. MOZART

Just read his letters and you'll know what I mean by this one

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Dodecaphonic music: you either REALLY like it, or REALLY don't

IGOR STRAVINSKY

On May 29th, 1913, Stravinsky succeeded in trolling the entire audience of the Paris Ballet. Polytonality - you mad?

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Mmmm... quite.

RICHARD WAGNER

Apparently he just found out that Mendelssohn was billed first on the program


So... as you can see, I've been using my time wisely.

~James B