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A new portrait of Mozart has been discovered

telegraph.co.uk — A rare portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been unearthed which gives a true picture of the famous composer's looks at the height of his fame.

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  • StealTheRR, on 03/16/2008, -4/+53Isn't it weird how even when we're dealing with someone who made his fame entirely through writing music, we're still compelled to try and figure out how he looked, as if that would tell us more about him? :)
  • slsanity, on 03/16/2008, -3/+39His music is so sublime it's comforting to see humanity behind it.
  • Beanstudd2, on 03/16/2008, -1/+30I wish i could bury you into the earth's core
  • papavb, on 03/16/2008, -0/+27ooooh he better update his facebook profile pic soon
  • mtdaugherty, on 03/16/2008, -0/+26I believe many mozart songs come standard on cell phones.
  • CAPITALLETTERS, on 03/16/2008, -10/+31That looks shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and having seen quite a few shops in my time.
  • SquigglyP, on 03/16/2008, -5/+26I've got a tongue, too, but I don't wanna know how he tasted.
  • clink0914, on 03/16/2008, -0/+20Wow, a geocities page.
  • inactive, on 03/16/2008, -3/+19We have eyes.
  • NightVortez, on 03/16/2008, -1/+17Speak for yourself.
  • bicyclethief, on 03/16/2008, -2/+18I'm diggin the early corn rows.
  • sasathi, on 03/16/2008, -0/+13Wolfgang is such a badass name
  • gwellington, on 03/16/2008, -7/+20He doesn't look like Tom Hulce at all.
  • thecoolestguy, on 03/16/2008, -1/+13We generally don't taste the people we know, but we do see them. Image is a pretty important facet of our conception of others.
  • katrayun, on 03/16/2008, -0/+11Wow, a geocities 'site unavailable' page.
  • Bender1012, on 03/16/2008, -1/+12Greatest composer ever.
  • alexonix, on 03/16/2008, -0/+10Wow, a geocities 'site unavailable' page that wants to teach me about data transfers.
  • PrototypeV, on 03/16/2008, -0/+8Because that is in fact a song composed by Mozart.
  • SquigglyP, on 03/16/2008, -2/+10Mozart apparently a big fan of the color red...
  • Joshuarr, on 03/16/2008, -3/+10Here's an artists rendition of what he would look like in modern times:

    http://www.labbrain.com/temp/modernMoz.jpg
  • mostlysane, on 03/16/2008, -0/+7I dont care if no one else gets it, I thought this was funny :) +1
  • RhodesSkolar, on 03/16/2008, -0/+7Marvelous composer! The really sad part is that now he's decomposing.
  • mostlysane, on 03/16/2008, -0/+6I'm guessing what he means by 'suspect' is the use of the word 'hankering'.
    Most people don't know that Mozart composed most of his early works while riding herd on an Austrian cattle drive. Many of the characters that were portrayed by John Wayne in his career were actually immigrants from that period of Austrian history, which is how the word came into the English language.
  • DarkDx, on 03/16/2008, -0/+5[citation needed]
  • lintmonkey, on 03/16/2008, -1/+6There's something fishy about your comment, but I'm not sure what.
  • ScottMitchell, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4It's hard to pick a "best" composer of all time because the style and quality of instruments and skill of players varied so greatly from classical music's infancy in the 1600s through it's last great showing in the late 1800s. Plus the "rules" changes from a more formalized, mathematical model to one that allowed more expression and individuality. My Mt. Rushmore of all time composers would be: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikowsky.
  • nwoantibody, on 03/16/2008, -1/+5So... in whose' basement was this found?
  • inactive, on 03/16/2008, -2/+6NO, BEETHOVEN
  • mrroquemore, on 03/16/2008, -1/+5This reminds me of the previously undiscovered manuscript of Mozart's, discovered in someone's attic in the Midwest a few years ago. The mystery continues.
  • Diggnoramus, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4I hope someone took a death mask of that page.
  • DarkDx, on 03/16/2008, -1/+5The portrait looks much more polished that the one in the left, it also shows a very accurate representation of the face (in case the portrait wasn't altered to make him look "better" or skinnier or whatever). Nice. Also, the left portrait looks like one of those gears of war screenshots with the massive contrast. lol.
  • tobias1482, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4Why not and who else would? This is a portrait, and not the work of a famous artist who "art professors" have focused on. Eisen is more of a historian, then a "music professor". This is historical detective work. They knew there was a painting from that period of time that was of Mozart due to his letters, etc. Eisen is an authority on Mozart's life. This painting apparently matches several criteria.
  • gnimsh, on 03/16/2008, -0/+4And the people of Salzburg go crazy for it!!!
  • inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Don't taste the people we know? Speak for yourself.
  • gurp13, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3I think Mozart is a pretty cool guy. Eh plays good muzik and doesn't afraid of anything.
  • RNEMESiS42, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Wolfie!
  • TheRedeemer, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Don't mock me. "Amadeus" is one of my all-time favorite movies! The best representation of a musician, I believe.
  • Patogrande, on 03/16/2008, -0/+318th century fart jokes.
  • tw0k1ngs, on 03/16/2008, -6/+9Who needs portraits when we have his death mask?
    http://www.geocities.com/mozart_lover83/Death_Mask ...
  • avengingturnip, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Dugg for knowing Mozart's hometown.
  • inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Probably none of his songs do. Themes from his symphonies, concertos and operas do. Not everything is a "song." There's more to music than the top 40.
  • merwin, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3Unless you happen to be blind
  • ReyX, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3*insert weird-ass laughter*
  • mostlysane, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3dugg just because it wasn't the rickroll that I was so sure it would be
  • twirk8888, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3the wikipedia editors of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Moza ... will be up in arms about this now.
  • inactive, on 03/16/2008, -0/+3I do. I want to know how he smelt, too, but his letters already give me a pretty good idea.
  • bowe, on 03/16/2008, -1/+3you're so punny!
  • orph3us, on 03/16/2008, -0/+21819 or 1829? Looks like you made the same mistake ... so its actually 28 years later
  • BuddyRey, on 07/19/2008, -0/+2I gave your comment a Thumbs-Up, because I know you were being facetious!

    But in the unlikeliest possibility that I am wrong...shame on you!
  • chokeaduck, on 03/16/2008, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wolfgang_Amadeus ...
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