Name the composer

robcat2075 · by **robcat2075** » 2018-09-17 12:48 p.m.

This is a Soviet propaganda cartoon showing a record producer trying to shield the classical composers from pop music.

From left to right I see

Tchaikovsky

???

Glinka

Moussorgsky

Rimsky-Korsakov

Any theories as to the second composer's identity? I'm presuming he is a Russian like the others.

boneagain · by **boneagain** » 2018-09-17 1:53 p.m.

Balakirev?

robcat2075 · by **robcat2075** » 2018-09-17 2:10 p.m.

[quote="boneagain"]Balakirev?[/quote]

Possibly. One of my initial suspects.

He had the hair and he had the beard but never both at the same time in any picture I find of him :), so i'm thinking it's someone else.

The other caricatures are close matches to iconic portraits.

BGuttman · by **BGuttman** » 2018-09-17 2:26 p.m.

How about Caesar Cui?

Another of the Mighty Five

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