Today In Gay History
May 7, 1840 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is born in Votinsk, Russia.
Assailed by many modern critics as better suited to writing for film
than creating serious music, A popular conspiracy theory has it that he
was forced to commit suicide by authorities because he was gay. Hardly
likely, under Tsarist Russia, homosexuality was tolerated, though
hardly condoned.
1 comment:
Well, "many modern critics" are the numbskulls responsible for the utter disconnect between 'classical music' listeners' hearts & emotions (melody!) and their brains/intellects (which are supposed to wholeheartedly embrace atonal crap fit only for the less than 1% who'd possibly appreciate it!)
These same critics would shame any composer who'd dare write any music 'people' would like!
Film music? There's a show on at 11am Sat on our classical music station that features 1 hr of film music. None of it comes 1000 miles near Tchaikovsky's genius!
Bless Tchaikovsky! Thank God he lived!
Yes, he just MIGHT have been forced to commit suicide; things were more complicated back then in Tsarist Russia than you might think.
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