r/whatisit • u/madmagic008 • 12h ago

New, what is it? I found this bust about 20cm deep while digging. Who is this person?

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I live south Netherlands, was about 20cm under the grass. Its almost a clay like material, I rinsed it with water and it looks to be slightly dissolving in the water.

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u/crispsandbeer 12h ago

Looks like Beethoven

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u/Equivalent_Warthog22 11h ago

Should have left him-he was decomposing

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u/ExampleLittle2672 11h ago

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u/Cod3monk3y83 11h ago

Lol what is this from?

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u/An0nnee_M0usee 11h ago

When in doubt, ask the doctor, Doctor Who, "Why that is Mr. Strax."

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u/Beelzebunions 4h ago

SONTAR-HA!

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u/October_people 8h ago

Here Boy 🤣

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u/shadowdance55 10h ago

Yeah, he's gone, but his music lives on. And Mozart don't go shopping no more. You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again, and Elgar doesn't answer the door.

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u/AlbertTheHorse 7h ago

Me in 7th grade in the 1970s laughing at that joke. 

I think someone released Beethoven’s 9th in disco form that year. 

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u/pensiveglitter 4h ago

Hooked on Classics!

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u/ProfessionalYam3119 8h ago

Tah-dah-dah-daaaaah!

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u/nikkonine 4h ago

Dumb, dumb, da dummmmmm. Dumb, dumb, da dummmmmm.

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u/paintergigi1941 51m ago

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long while!! I peed my pants!!!

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u/Scatologist23 12h ago

I 2nd Beethoven.

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u/Full_Pay_207 12h ago

I 5th of Beethoven.

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u/malthar76 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/mR9dWo88e5jFe

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u/Hyenas_At_War 3h ago

1, 2, 3, 4, FIF!

Anything you say to me, FIF!

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u/hymie_funkhauser 12h ago

I minor 5th

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u/Fantastic_Pie5655 11h ago

Perhaps a diminished 5th

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u/The_12OCKET 11h ago

I’ve had a good look at it and would say it’s unfinished Beethoven

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u/scottpapertrailblaze 11h ago

Satan's favorite interval

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u/good2Bbackagain 10h ago

As in symphony?

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u/Nothing-to_see_hr 12h ago

probably plaster of paris, very soft esp when wet. Beethoven.

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u/sinfulfng 12h ago

Someone should tell Tchaikovsky the news

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u/Mainly_Miserable 11h ago

Waiting to comment until I’m Ninth…

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u/madmagic008 11h ago

Quite possible, pictures look quite different but when looking at other busts, I do see quite alot of resemblance. But at the same time I find alot of random pictures of busts that's share alot of resemblances

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u/Revolutionary-Law382 11h ago

He's a decomposing composer.

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u/Coinsworthy 12h ago

Looks like Mozart as well.

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u/Jack_South 10h ago

Johann Sebastian Bachyard

Or Andre Rieu of course. 

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u/mariana-130 8h ago

Oui je crois aussi que c’est Beethoven !

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u/RdeBrouwer 10h ago

First thing that popped my mind when I saw it.

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u/pbertje 9h ago

It can only be one!

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u/woutomatic 7h ago

*van Beethoven

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u/sonshne3mom 5h ago

Yes he would still be humming

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u/IntenseAdventurer 3h ago

Heeeey! It's Beeth-oven! (Bill and Ted voice)

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u/QuietlyConfidentSWE 11h ago

Shh, he's decomposing!

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u/roosterjack77 11h ago

He can't hear you

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u/bornt_rager 11h ago

There’s less of them every year!

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u/Melodic_Expression53 11h ago

He pleads the fifth.

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u/P3P3-SILVIA 11h ago

Classic Far Side

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u/shadowdance55 10h ago

Or Monty Python.

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u/Dry-Character-6331 12h ago

As Keanu would say "Beeth Oven"

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u/Oneironautical1 11h ago

What I always hear in my head when reading it.

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u/wzlch47 11h ago

That’s Dave Beeth Oven to you.

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u/Crownguard95 12h ago

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u/SEND_ME_FEAT_PICS 11h ago edited 11h ago

POV: You're a 7-eleven roller dog at 2:30 in the morning

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u/IamSpyC 11h ago

Wizard fingers

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u/maryjanestilettoes 7h ago

Battering ram 😖💩 at the castle gate.

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u/swanziii 21m ago

Right side looks like Vigo from Ghostbusters 2

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u/No_Director_2570 12h ago

Ludwig van Beethoven, german classical musician. Often a mix up. Hes german and went to Austria. Hitler was Austrian and went to Germany.

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u/El_Morgos 11h ago

Dang, that's why I can't figure out Mein Kampf on the piano...

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u/Jinn71 11h ago

It’s Beethoven and you just dug up the grave he was rolling in

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u/EnigmaMachine42 11h ago

Don’t tell Tchaikovsky. 😉

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u/Fartony 12h ago

Who tf burys a concrete beethoven head

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u/Fanastik 11h ago

Who cut off the head?

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u/thejudgehoss 11h ago

His headless body wandering the earth...like Agnew.

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u/Slow_Perception 10h ago

I don't know but in the 1950s, my gran (working in A&E) had a fella come in with a bust of Napoleon stuck in his rectal cavity. OP, maybe wear gloves just in case.

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u/Fartony 9h ago

Happens to the best of us

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u/Z4lost 7h ago

*bust of us.

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u/Ncfetcho 9h ago

It's plaster, I'm fairly sure. I have one likeit.

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u/Fartony 9h ago

Doesn't make it any less weird lol

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u/Ncfetcho 9h ago

Ok,fair. I raised a moot point

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u/Kitsunegari_Blu 7h ago

He’d have to been plastered to fall so hard face first, he planted himself.

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u/Ncfetcho 9h ago

That is a large, plaster bust of Beethoven, and I have one just like it, that I bought between 2006 and 2010 from a " buy something and get a free onion " furniture shop that ALSO had a giant strpper heel that was a chair that I DESPERATELY wanted, but wasn't able to get before they closed up shop.

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u/Kitsunegari_Blu 7h ago

Crazy…I had to buy a stupid Pleaser Chair, because someone snagged the huge Beethoven Plaster I wanted…

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u/RedRoachDK 4h ago

Was it a good onion?

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u/taranathesmurf 5h ago

My thought at once was Beethovan. I looked it up. Apparently there is a tradition if you give up studying the piano, you bury a bust of Beethovan face down in the dirt.

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u/madmagic008 2h ago

Interesting. It was face down but I couldn't find anything confirming this tradition

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u/Poetjie 11h ago

looks busted

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u/SnooHesitations9447 11h ago

Andrew Ludwig Von Jackson Beethoven

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u/PavlovsDoghouse 11h ago

He drank the 5th, now he's smashed.

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u/Mirar 11h ago

Cut/broken version of this Beethoven bust: https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Plaster-Bust-of-Beethoven-Sculpture/6C5032C1C2333CC0A2EC9D5432F47952 or something quite similar. Old grand piano decoration maybe?

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u/SampleInevitable122 9h ago

That medieval guy

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u/AmplifiedScreamer 8h ago

Ludwig van Seriouslybeatuphoven.

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u/Almost-Hippy 12h ago

Has Ben Gates knocked on your door yet?

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u/dff1199 12h ago

Gips wird weich wer es feucht ist. Am besten den alten Kopf trocknen lassen.

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u/Advanced_Eagle_6808 11h ago

Looks like a partially eaten prime minister to me!

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u/Key_Project_341 11h ago

Thats definitely a buried murder weapon

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u/Sad-Supermarket8437 9h ago

No. It doesn’t look Beethoven at all.

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u/Cstott23 8h ago

In the immortal words of the ELO, Roll over beethoooooooooven, roll over beethoven.. ,

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u/Potential_Pinecone 12h ago

I believe it's Beethoven, as well

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u/Herodversary 12h ago

Looks like Kierkegaard. 

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u/GeoStreber 12h ago

Welly welly welly well,

it's lovely lovely Ludwig Van.

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u/MarkusSugarhill 12h ago

Looks very beethoveny

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u/Frapnk 12h ago

the elephant man

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u/Realkevinleo 11h ago

Beethoven

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u/The-Poet__57 11h ago

Beethoven

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u/AdventurousArtist740 11h ago

Die hard chuck berry fan buried it ?

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u/Necroticjojo 11h ago

Pretty sure that’s Chris

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u/CplAw3som3 11h ago

Beethoven

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u/hootp4103 11h ago

Beetoven

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u/stonesober35 11h ago

Baitheavin

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u/Sp00kington 11h ago

Put that thing back before people start dying.

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u/sincereama 11h ago

Ofc he is a one of middle centuries Nobles in Europe and he was slave trader in Netherlands or had an assets in east India company

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u/cheezluiz 11h ago

Check for a body. Looks like a headstone

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u/facemugg 11h ago

Isn’t that the looksmaxxing guy?

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u/cicic 11h ago

Kate Beckinsale used it as target practice in Underworld

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u/AffectionateBee8016 11h ago

Beethoven. A gypsum buste of Beethoven

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u/germansickshit 11h ago

Dig. It. Back. In.

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u/Capital-Outcome-2528 11h ago

A potentially buried murder weapon

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u/3X_Cat 11h ago

Saint Joseph

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u/nopost23632 11h ago

Dave Beeth-Oven

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u/kaptajnkraftkarl 11h ago

Decomposing composer!

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u/arrbez 11h ago

Jebediah Springfield

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u/Only_Cat_686 11h ago

Definitely someone from Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure

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u/Recent_Map4585 11h ago

The good old Ludwig Van

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u/DieAndereDirk 11h ago

The old Ludwig Von

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u/Straight-Fish-7397 10h ago

A Sound investment.

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u/One_Age_5026 10h ago

Yo Angelo 👋

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u/ButterNutDoIt 10h ago

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u/hehahah07 10h ago

Voldemort ?

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u/EnvironmentalCall957 10h ago

The headless horseman

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u/CommonAcanthisitta65 10h ago

Someone really hated their piano lessons.

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u/alienheron 10h ago

Lionel Richie

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u/Jive_Kata 10h ago

Ludwig Van.

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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda 10h ago

Should put him back where you got him.

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u/Soggy_Quarter9333 9h ago

Dum dum dum dummmmm

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u/Pedantichrist 9h ago

Beet Hoven.

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u/YakElectronic6713 9h ago

Yup, Beethoven.

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u/G-TownMadness 9h ago

Geert Wilders

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u/frnkidritis 9h ago

John/Joseph Merrick aka the Elephant Man

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u/Chamanomano 8h ago

That be Luddie - my man! 

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u/ctrum69 7h ago

Ludwig van beethoven, looks like

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u/Big-Writer2487 7h ago

Beethoven for sure!

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u/maryjanestilettoes 7h ago

Ludwig van Beethoven

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u/Unfair_Constant1985 7h ago

Amadeus Beethoven!!!!👤👤👤👤

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u/Bibibi88 7h ago

I have another question, why did you or your neighbour close of the door with bricks but did not clean up the left over concrete!!!

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u/Previous-Level-Lost 7h ago

Martha. MARTHA, you let the ghost children into the Library again didn’t you?

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u/Ok_Energy6935 7h ago

I was gonna say it looks like Andrew Jackson , but then I read that you're in the Netherlands so nevermind.

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u/BelladonnaNix 7h ago

That is Beethoven.

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u/Comfortable_Rice6112 6h ago

duh duh duh DUHHH

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u/Major-Reception1016 6h ago

It's probably freaking haunted, put it back, we need all the luck we can get in this m***********.

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u/IShouldaDownVotedYa 5h ago

Amazing how recognizable it is as Beethoven yet so beat up

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u/Topia_64 5h ago

Beethoven?

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u/KynaPerfect 5h ago

Beethoven

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u/kekubuk 4h ago

I see a new SCP page incoming.

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u/Important_Tennis936 4h ago

James Ensor, Belgium's famous painter. Dig him up and shake his hand

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u/Ornery-State-9380 4h ago

It's Mozart but I was going to recommend he put it Bach.

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u/Effective_Play_1366 4h ago

Lionel Richie?

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u/TeddyRuxpin3 3h ago

Baberaham Lincoln

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u/Puzzled_Still_7433 3h ago

Well that’s a bust.

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u/Calachus 3h ago

🎵

The decomposing composers,

There's less of them every year.

You can still hear Beethoven,

But Beethoven cannot hear you.

🎵

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u/CrucialMiyagi 2h ago

john quincey adams

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u/UncleJimbo808 2h ago

Roll Over Betavon

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u/Snoo60900 1h ago

Rupert Theodore Donovan the third of course

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u/Commercial_Writing_6 1h ago

Oo! A religious icon of St Bernard!
Lucky :)

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u/Alarming-Chemistry27 51m ago

Loony Ludwig Van

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u/VaccineInjured69 41m ago

Kevin bacon

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u/Ok_Recognition_9859 1m ago

Ludwig Von...