Composer Mugs

Life Without Mozart

Ludwig van Beethoven

'I hate these purists who play Bach without any pedal'

"Don't you know anything but 'Afternoon of a Faun'?"

Frank Zappa

Woody Shaw

The Staff Meeting.

"And now, God help us all, Rachmaninoff's Concerto in C Minor."

'Let's get outta here. This place is nothin' but treble.'

A bird's song is trapped in a musical stave.

Musician having a brain scan.

Musical notes F-A-C-E between lines on musical scale

'Wolfgang! Playing air violin is not practicing!'

Beethoven's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Fifth.

"Run for your lives! It's the full 'Ring' cycle!!"

'In an inexplicable attack of nerves, Elliot becomes the first person ever to screw up John Cage's 4'33'.

Cellist site reading birds on telephone wires.

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

Wolfgang Mozart

Johann Sebastian Bach

"Come on, you know the words! Bum bum bum bum!"

Joseph Haydn

Gustav Mahler orders a salad.

Antonio Vivaldi

Three great regrets.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

"I don't want to play for the audience. I want to play for the fans."

Mozart's improvisational skills, along with his lack of financial security, often led to brilliant inspiration.

"I wonder if they noticed I missed out the second movement?"

Robert Schumann

'We thought we'd try a Schubert Lieder karaoke night.'

Franz Schubert

Mendelssohn Finds His Inspiration

Claude Debussy

'I think he is a composer.'