The Dead Russian Composer Personality Test

[Deadgod]

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You are Dmitri Shostakovich!

Congratulations! You are a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year you started music lessons of any sort. You wrote the first of your fifteen symphonies at age 18, and your second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when you were only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put you on the Enemy Of The People List for life. You nevertheless kept composing the works you wanted to write in private; some of your vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And you somehow were NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole your glasses and broke them!

I'll put the Dead German Composer one later....enjoy.

[reb]

You are Dmitri Shostakovich!

will the REAL Dmitri please stand up? not without vodka....

[Maayan]

I couldn't stop laughing while filling this out... the "losing your passport" thing actually happened to me, in Russia, and it was a terrifying and hilarious adventure. (I had to avoid making eye contact with police officers for about a week; the Militsiya have every right to throw you into jail or else solicit you for bribery for walking around without ID.) I couldn't even choose on most of the questions...

Pyotr Chaikovsky. I AM the Real Chaikovsky! Considered by most Westerners to be the greatest Russian composer of all, most late 19th Century Russians think you're actually too Westernized in your musical tendencies. Despite this criticism, as well as the flak you had to take for your preference of Y-chromosomes, your ballets "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake" are upheld as among the greatest and most popular pieces of all time.

[Shorgenfunkel]

You are Sergei Rakhmaninov.

You lived in the early Twentieth Century and were well known for your compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet you are melancholy despite this talent. Your famous works include your nearly-impossible piano concerti.
Hm. I don't even play piano, and my pieces aren't generally THAT hard. Maybe my result is skewed due to INTJ-osity though; Rachmaninov is always said to have been an INTJ.

[Merle]

You are Sergei Rakhmaninov.
You lived in the early Twentieth Century and were well known for your compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet you are melancholy despite this talent. Your famous works include your nearly-impossible piano concerti.

I had a feeling I would get that result. He's my favourite Russian composer so, all is good.

Please do put up the German composer one!

[Freedom Geek]

You are Sergei Rakhmaninov.
You lived in the early Twentieth Century and were well known for your compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet you are melancholy despite this talent. Your famous works include your nearly-impossible piano concerti

[Josephine1012]

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You are Aleksandr Borodin.

Son of a 19th Century Russian prince and a...non-royal...mother, you went to medical school and became a biochemist. Most people, however, (and probably your twenty cats as well) agree that they'd trade all of your scientific discoveries for another set of "Polovetsian Dances."

[Allie]

I was curious to see what all the vodka drinking would produce. Just curious...really and truly! I promise.

You are Modest Mussorgsky.

You are a Romantic period psycho who's drunk more often than not. You died of this affliction, not surprisingly. Your famous works include "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Pictures at an Exhibition."

OK. Here's the other one.

You are Sergei Prokofyev.

You were born in the late 19th century and were a child prodigy, composing at a very young age. You kept this talent up, earning yourself quite a name and fully exploiting the bragging rights. You were disliked by Stalin, however, and you died the same day he did. Your most famous work is "Peter and the Wolf."

[Cthulhu]

I got Shostakovich, who, as it happens, is my favorite composer. I would have been mortified to find out I was Rimsky-Korsakov.

[SelfInflected]

You are Sergei Rakhmaninov.

I'm almost glad I'm not Shostakovich-- I might just type something to please you.

[azelismia]

another dmitry

[thiagofralves]

You are Igor Stravinsky.

Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, your music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as you aged. You are a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at you after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

Afterwards, I tried Vodka on everything to see what I would get :)

You are Modest Mussorgsky.

You are a Romantic period psycho who's drunk more often than not. You died of this affliction, not surprisingly. Your famous works include "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Pictures at an Exhibition."

[Jonathan Brewer]

Dmitri Shostakovich

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You are Dmitri Shostakovich
!
Congratulations! You are a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year you started music lessons of any sort. You wrote the first of your fifteen symphonies at age 18, and your second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when you were only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put you on the Enemy Of The People List for life. You nevertheless kept composing the works you wanted to write in private; some of your vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And you somehow were NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole your glasses and broke them!

[Linwenilid]

Rakhmaninov. Heh.

LOL at the Harry Potter comment. :p

Oh, and: "Copy and paste this HTML code to add this oh-so-significant information to your web site"

Cracked me up. :cheesy:

[Nikita]

You are Sergei Rakhmaninov.
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You lived in the early Twentieth Century and were well known for your compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet you are melancholy despite this talent. Your famous works include your nearly-impossible piano concerti.

[rflki3]

You are Igor Stravinsky.

Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, your music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as you aged. You are a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at you after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

[Antares]

You are Igor Stravinsky. Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, your music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as you aged. You are a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at you after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

[englishnerd]

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Sergei Prokofyev.

I was born in the late 19th century and was a child prodigy, composing at a very young age. I kept this talent up, earning myself quite a name and fully exploiting the bragging rights. I was disliked by Stalin, however, and I died the same day he did. My most famous work is "Peter and the Wolf."

[altoid]

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You are Sergei Rakhmaninov.

You lived in the early Twentieth Century and were well known for your compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet you are melancholy despite this talent. Your famous works include your nearly-impossible piano concerti.

[pgauding]

You are Dmitri Shostakovich!

Congratulations! You are a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year you started music lessons of any sort. You wrote the first of your fifteen symphonies at age 18, and your second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when you were only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put you on the Enemy Of The People List for life. You nevertheless kept composing the works you wanted to write in private; some of your vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And you somehow were NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole your glasses and broke them!


Ironically, after my first professional performance, I badly mangled his name. For those who don't know (and I'm sure that's very few of you), it's Shost-uh-ko-vich, not Shu-stak-o-vich!

[Autoptic]

Rakhmaninov

'Late twentieth and I could've had an axe.:sulk:

[blackbelt]

You are Sergei Prokofyev.
You were born in the late 19th century and were a child prodigy, composing at a very young age. You kept this talent up, earning yourself quite a name and fully exploiting the bragging rights. You were disliked by Stalin, however, and you died the same day he did. Your most famous work is "Peter and the Wolf."


I was laughing the entire time. Especially when i got to the question about which instruments you prefer: Higher instruments, Lower instruments, both, or "they're all much the same after too much vodka."

[OwenF]

Igor Stravinsky

Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, your music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as you aged. You are a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at you after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."

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I like some Stravinsky a good bit. I am not a neat freak.

[mozartus]

Got good ol' Dmitri Shostakovich! I think I'll now listen to some of his solo piano works played by Vladimir Ashkenazy, thank you very much.

[yoginimama]

Shostakovich :)

[themuzicman]

You are Igor Stravinsky.
Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, your music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dissonant and bizzare as you aged. You are a traveler and a neat freak, and very much hated those rotten eggs thrown at you after the premiere of "The Rite of Spring."