TIL that famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay.
TIL that famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay.
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This is the biggest reason he wasn't allowed "membership" with Russia's Mighty Five that was made up of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Cui, and Balakirev. They would claim that Tchaikovsky's works weren't Russian enough. That he was too heavily influenced by Western European composers. The joke is on them. Tchaikovsky is pretty much a household name and most people know his works even if they don't know the title or his name.
Here's his violin concerto that he composed for his student/lover
Very true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.
I don't know, Tolkien dwarves tend to be a little more boubah whereas Russian composers tend to be a little more Kiiki
For those who don't know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Borodin at least is a very Tolkieny name. It's also not too different from the DND dwarf god Moradin, so
You may not know who Rimsky-Koraskov was, but you have almost certainly heard Flight of the Bumblebee and probably would recognize at least the opening of Scheherazade if you heard it and he composed both.