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

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

   

   Be still my beating Moz-heart.

2. Clara Schumann

   

   Clara can play me like a piano any day.

3. Franz Schubert

   

   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?).

4. Johann Sebastian Bach

   

   Forget fugue daddy, this guy definitely has a podcast about discovering craft beer in his 40s.

5. Fanny Mendelssohn

   

   If Barbie made classical musicians...

6. George Frideric Handel

   

   This guy’s jawline has me singing the Hallelujah Chorus. The original Too Hot to Handel.

7. Franz Liszt

   

   I could write a Liszt of all the things that are perfect about this transformation.

8. Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

   

   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.

9. Edward Elgar

   

   Elgar looks so good in glasses it’s honestly an enigma.

10. Dmitri Shostakovich

    

    You and Dmi, baby.

11. Francesca Caccini

    

    Francesca ‘what a Cacc’-ini.

12. Johannes Brahms

    

    Brahms belongs in a glossy magazine ad for a high-end wristwatch brand and I won’t be convinced otherwise.

13. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    

    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

14. Antonio Vivaldi

    

    #Vivgaldi.