By Jeremy Pound

Published: Sunday, 01 January 2023 at 12:00 am

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We celebrate some of the best and wackiest hairstyles of some of our music greats – which is your favourite ‘hair do’?

• Composers as kids: a photo album of great composers as children
• 15 composers and their dogs
• 15 badly behaved composers

7 magnificent manes

Hair-raising harpsichordist Jean Rondeau

Mezzo Blanche Thebom takes the long view

Berlioz’s hair is simply fantastique

Pianist Paderewski, plus bird’s nest

Waltz composer Joseph Lanner goes for three beats in a barnet

Spohr sports a prog rock look

Varèse defies you to laugh…

Hair, there and everywhere

Paul Tortelier’s is as tempestuous as his musicianship

‘Leave it just on the ears’, violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate tells his barber

Epic chops from composer Johann Strauss

Italian pianist Federico Curli Colli

Teddy boy tenor Nicolai Gedda

A young Simon Rattle enjoys his fame without a brush

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