We aged the great composers on FaceApp – and it's deeply disconcerting

16 July 2019, 17:46 | Updated: 23 September 2020, 14:46

What does FaceApp’s ‘age’ filter do to classical composers? We had to find out.

What would these composers look like if they had lived for another 60 years? We tried out FaceApp’s popular ‘age’ filter against classic composer portraits to discover more.

1. Bach... (Bilbo Baggins, is that you?)

   

2. Eric looks inexplicably better. Man’s like a fine wine.

   

3. Schumann is all chins

   

4. Beethoven is basically Grumpy Cat (RIP)

   

5. Brahms is quite vampiric

   

6. Fanny ages well

   

7. Mozart looks like the guy you try to avoid at parties

   

8. Schubert is very distinguished

   

9. Vivaldi belongs in a horror film

   

10. Liszt is basically Bill Nighy

    

11. And Shostakovich is, as always, just an older Daniel Radcliffe.