Your Favorite Composers Doing the Daily via New Tumblr Blog 'Composers Doing Normal S--t'

If you're like me, then you've always admired the everyday struggle your favorite artists, musicians and so on endure--just like the rest of us.

It should come as no surprise that even the coolest of composers had to deal with the daily mundanity of the usual regimen (however awesome they may have made it look).

Well, with the wonderful invention of the internet, and with the help of archivists searching for that special photo capturing a small window into the personal lives of some of the more exceptional genius in classical music, we now have a better idea of what it was like to hang with some of the heavyweights in classical composition.

Thanks to a wonderful new Tumblr page devoted to the routines of your favorite composers, 'Composers Doing Normal S--t' brings you the world behind them.

Recent posts have featured Benjamin Britten lying naked beachside to John Cage flying a cartoon plane with Karlheinz Stockhausen (fake?) to Dmitri Shostakovich watching some soccer.

So, with a nod to the fine people at that Tumblr, here's a brief slideshow of some of the normal s.h.i.t. that composers do on the reg.

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