Gents: are you taking part in Movember this month and growing a moustache? Why not look to classical music to keep you mo-tivated?
Limelight has put together a gallery spanning 500 years of the greatest composer moustaches in history, from William Byrd to Leos Janácek.
So grow, groom, and know that there was a great mo behind some of the most brilliant and powerful music ever written.
Orlande de Lassus (c1532-1594)
William Byrd (c1540-1623)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Édouard Lalo (1823-1892)
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Leos Janácek (1854-1928)
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
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