I'm Not Gay...
...but one must admit the young Franz Schubert (above) was quite handsome.
Admit it! It doesn't make you any less of a man!
...but one must admit the young Franz Schubert (above) was quite handsome.
Admit it! It doesn't make you any less of a man!
posted by PWS at 3:19 PM
5 Comments:
there is nothing remotely homosexual about saying someone was handsome or not. My brother is a handsome guy... i dont know what went wrong with me...but...
How long have you been taking french? first year? If so i can help, if you need it. and also, 19th century portraiturists were known to, um, "idealize" their subjects a little. not saying schubert was ugly, im just saying...
This will be my first year. I am very excited to (try and) learn. How long have you been studying it?
Schubert was a little chubster later in life, and sure this sketch maybe overdoes his early attractiveness, but it seems that his non-stature and the fact that it was drawn before any cult of the Viennese had started makes it seem more real to me.
PWS wrote:
"Schubert was a little chubster later in life"
Not much later (he only lived to 28), Brahms put on the pounds, too, and its hard to reconcile the young Brahms with the old one. Schubert had a skin problem as well (Mozart was pockmarked and Beethoven's complexion was much remarked-upon). Wagner was very short (around 1.5 metres), which may explain something.
I suppose most composers are more like Beckett's Krapp than Dorian Gray; they (we?) all have an unchanging picture of the handsome younger self hidden in an album or a bureau somewhere, while the real body ages and decays with alarming speed. At least the mind stays... oh whatever.
I guess that's the price of the life style -- hard living, late nights (I swear, when I was 19 or 20, I'd go a week or two without sleep, just from a composing high), too many details to worry about, and the manic roller coaster from inspired composing to disappointing performance and back again. I couldn't imagine a better life...
I've been studying francais for, presque six annees. C'est vraiment longtemps, non? (je n'ai pas les accents sur mon ordinateur)
Its a... nice language, but i would have gone with italian if it had been taught at my highschool. Just make sure you get a good professor- it makes all the difference, and bien sur, college level francais est plus difficle que les cours de francais en lycee. make sure to etudier!
yeah, brahms was supposed to have been handsome earlier in life.
i sense some sarcasm mr. wolf, dont worry, you've always got your own music to perform brilliantly... and dont forget that good exercise prevents physical decay.
did i ecrive trop de mots en francais? oh, whatever, i'll stop being annoying now.
m. keiser -
not sarcasm, just wistfulness.
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