This cartoon caricatures him as both a conductor and composer. The picture includes what people heard as non-musical sounds: songbirds, roosters, bells, trains, howling dogs, and cannons. One man falls asleep in exhaustion. Others have collapsed after being struck by the instruments or the notes themselves.
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Mahler's conducting style, 1901, caricatured in the humor magazine Fliegende Blätter
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Here are my previous posts about sketching conductors:
2 comments:
Great illustrations! Reminds me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where he conducts that guy singing :'-D
Did anybody do the same sort of thing with Lennie Bernstein? Must have. He certainly was theatrical enough, although I think he was more beloved by his musicians.
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