14 ‘yassified’ great classical composers – for your viewing pleasure
27 January 2022, 17:50 | Updated: 15 February 2022, 10:30

Silent Monks Sing The Hallelujah Chorus
Great classical composers... with a 21st-century lick.
In November 2021, ‘yassification’ burst onto the scene as a new hyper-beautified meme taking the Internet by storm.
Social media users use the app, FaceApp, to hyper-beautify well-known celebrities. And the results are hilarious, and gorgeous.
With @YassifyBot leading the way with their take on President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, we knew we had to jump on this trend.
So, we decided our favourite composers deserved a makeover. Introducing classical composers – the thirst-trap edition...
Read more: We put the great composers through FaceApp to make them smile
We’re so lucky to have them in office 🙏 pic.twitter.com/UO38MemKTF
— Yassify Bot (@YassifyBot) November 13, 2021
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Picture: Alamy Be still my beating Moz-heart.
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Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann. Picture: Redditor user, Creedelback Clara can play me like a piano any day.
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Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert. Picture: Alamy Hot take: Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 was really left unfinished because he was too busy admiring his reflection (and honestly, who can blame him?).
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach. Picture: Alamy Forget fugue daddy, this guy definitely has a podcast about discovering craft beer in his 40s.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn. Picture: Alamy/FaceApp If Barbie made classical musicians...
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel. Picture: Getty This guy’s jawline has me singing the Hallelujah Chorus. The original Too Hot to Handel.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt. Picture: Getty I could write a Liszt of all the things that are perfect about this transformation.
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. Picture: Alamy Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: has 15.8M followers on Instagram, runs a highly successful makeup channel on YouTube, has frequent collaborations with high street cosmetics lines and strongly denies allegations of lip fillers.
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Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar. Picture: Alamy Elgar looks so good in glasses it’s honestly an enigma.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich. Picture: Color by Klimbim 0.1 You and Dmi, baby.
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Francesca Caccini
Francesca Caccini. Picture: Alamy Francesca ‘what a Cacc’-ini.
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Johannes Brahms
Brahms. Picture: Alamy/FaceApp Brahms belongs in a glossy magazine ad for a high-end wristwatch brand and I won’t be convinced otherwise.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Picture: Color by Klimbim 0.1 Yassified Tchaikovsky hangs out in a hipster independent coffee shop in Shoreditch where it’s £7.50 for a novelty latte, all the decor is dark wood and exposed metalwork and there are plants everywhere
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Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi. Picture: Alamy/FaceApp #Vivgaldi.