 |
Welcome to the Piano World Piano Forums
Over 3 million posts about pianos, digital pianos, and all types of keyboard instruments.
Over 100,000 members from around the world.
Join the World's Largest Community of Piano Lovers
(it's free)
It's Fun to Play the Piano ... Please Pass It On!
|
|
|
|
52 members (Cheeeeee, Adam Reynolds, Cominut, Burkhard, 1200s, clothearednincompo, akse0435, busa, 36251, 5 invisible),
1,283
guests, and
277
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
We've seen this online. But not in the detail of the image below if shown full size. ![[Linked Image]](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2437/4007692985_da34406a16_o.jpg)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 13,955
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
|
|
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 13,955 |
Those were some serious curtains !!  Is that a picture of LVB on the wall ??
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 5,870
5000 Post Club Member
|
|
5000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 5,870 |
cool, thanks! I also think it's LVB But it raises more questions Why are there 3 black scratches over his desk? Why are all the curtains there? What's the baroque thing on the round table, half hidden behind the curtains? Does he wear a hairpiece? The chair he sits on with the armrests and backrest seems adjutable height 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
Even today one can see L. v B. over in that corner of the salon . . . ![[Linked Image]](http://www.ilmtal-radweg.de/typo3temp/_processed_/csm_Liszthaus-1_bf9cb62e4e.jpg)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 26,905
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
|
|
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 26,905 |
It may well be Beethoven.
I don't see "three black scratches".
The curtains were part of 19th century decorating "musts". It could well be that the curtains in the foreground (i.e. not those on the windows) were to close off the viewed section of the room from the rest of the room behind the camera.
He was always shown with long hair, parted in the middle from his youth to old age. I've never heard that he wore a hairpiece.
Why do you think the chair is adjustable? It looks like a fairly typical desk chair of the period.
Edit : the modern colour photograph posted while I was writing this post shows the curtains as room dividers.
Regards,
BruceD
- - - - -
Estonia 190
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
Here is a portrayal I found of as it was back in the day . . . ![[Linked Image]](http://www.besbrodepianos.com/photo154/bechstein-concert-grand-franz-liszt-griffin-PIC1.jpg)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,081
1000 Post Club Member
|
|
1000 Post Club Member
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,081 |
wish i could see chopin too at his study desk with this clarity
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 1,966
1000 Post Club Member
|
|
1000 Post Club Member
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 1,966 |
These are fantastic images. Where exactly is this room, Weimar? Budapest?
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 13,955
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
|
|
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 13,955 |
These are fantastic images. Where exactly is this room, Weimar? Budapest? Philadelphia, I believe.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
These are fantastic images. Where exactly is this room, Weimar? Budapest? Weimar.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
These are fantastic images. Where exactly is this room, Weimar? Budapest? Philadelphia, I believe. The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 5,870
5000 Post Club Member
|
|
5000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 5,870 |
Why do you think the chair is adjustable? It looks like a fairly typical desk chair of the period.
Because I see a screw thread under his seat and the legs don't seem to run up all the way to his seat
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,333
3000 Post Club Member
|
|
3000 Post Club Member
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,333 |
Really cool to see then and now pictures.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 13,955
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
|
|
Yikes! 10000 Post Club Member
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 13,955 |
These are fantastic images. Where exactly is this room, Weimar? Budapest? Philadelphia, I believe. The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
I found these two photos of the salon at the wikimedia commons. It looks quite cozy. ![[Linked Image]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Liszthaus_Weimar_2.JPG) ![[Linked Image]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Liszthaus_Weimar_3.JPG)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 5,870
5000 Post Club Member
|
|
5000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 5,870 |
The colors are quite different from what I imagined from that B&W photo. Are these the original colors?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352
2000 Post Club Member
|
|
OP
2000 Post Club Member
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 2,352 |
The colors are quite different from what I imagined from that B&W photo. Are these the original colors? I suspect so but I don't really know.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 1,146
1000 Post Club Member
|
|
1000 Post Club Member
Joined: Mar 2014
Posts: 1,146 |
I found these two photos of the salon at the wikimedia commons. It looks quite cozy. But they don't show what a messy guy he was.
Will do some R&B for a while. Give the classical a break.
You can spend the rest of your life looking for music on a sheet of paper. You'll never find it, because it just ain't there. - Me Myself
|
|
|
|
Forums43
Topics223,385
Posts3,349,185
Members111,631
| |
Most Online15,252
Mar 21st, 2010
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
![[Linked Image]](https://www.pianoworld.com/Uploads/files/RedDotMedalSmall.jpg)
