beethoven got a great portrait, and this guy got this?

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Why do classical composers in old portraits always look so smug? Like they're about to laugh at you.

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Isn't that the fantasy portrait commissioned after his death by his widow to airbrush his ugly pockmarked face?

>>74946952
mozart was full of shit

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>>74947034
>All of which would be significant enough, but this is a portrait of something else too: not just Bach, but his music. In his right hand, Bach is offering us a complete compositional kit, a musical riddle that’s called “Canon triplex à 6 voc”, a six-voice perpetual canon, which loops back on itself, again and again. The riddle takes some solving, as Gardiner does in his book. To generate the six voices, you have to read the three parts in the clefs that Bach is presenting, but then you need to read backwards from his perspective in different clefs, and there is even a “double mirror canon” there too, “if we reflect the notes along the middle line of each stave”, as Gardiner says.
He's got a right to be smug.

>>74947034
>>74946952
looks like they gotta take a fat classical dump

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>>74947034
Sometimes they just look retarded

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>>74947136

>>74947034
He looks annoyed.

>>74947237
That's a face full of hope and optimism

>>74947134
Was this guy the Isaac Newton of western music?