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utada posted:Franz Liszt You can't mention Liszt without this portrait of him as a young man:  He was the ultimate rock star of his day. It was said that women fainted when they saw him in concert. Other 19th-century musical hotties:  Tchaikovsky, with his intense eyes.  While Brahms is most famously pictured as a grizzled, white-bearded old man, he was a looker in his youth.
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 George Antheil, the self-described "Bad Boy of Music." One legend has it that he was jealous of the riot that happened at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. He wanted there to be a riot at one of his concerts so badly that, while he was on stage, he had the ushers very obviously lock all the doors and then placed a gun on the piano. Also, he and Hedy Lamarr co-developed a "secret communications system" that is still used in telecommunication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheil edit: vvv I didn't notice that. That's hilarious and fantastic. ZoeDomingo has a new favorite as of 17:19 on Feb 14, 2013 |
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Feb 14, 2013 15:23
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I have loved Antheil ever since I learned about him in my 20th-century music course. His most famous work, the Ballet Mécanique, was composed to go along with a film of the same name by Fernand Léger. Léger ended up not using the score as the soundtrack, but back in the 1990s someone put the two together. You can see the result here.
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