TIL that famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay.
TIL that famous Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky was gay.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia
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Well yeah. I thought everyone knew he wrote the Gayteen Twelve Homoture.
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Sigh…. (Upvoted)
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This hurts me. Here's an upvote
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That was incredibly immature. sigh. I upvoted.
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Wait, one of the greatest musicians of [insert country] was gay?
This is shocking.
Next thing you'll tell me is Elton John isn't straight.
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On the next episode of "historical figures who were gay as fuck"... Leonardo Da Vinci.
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King James.
Yep, the bible guy.
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Russians: Tchaikovsky no!
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Tchaikovsky YES.
TCHAIKOVSKY ALWAYS YES.
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Probably why he's so mega gay tbh
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Cannot confirm or deny this, but I once heard that he went to someone's house at night some time after hearing they like honey just to give them honey. Don't remember who, but I think it was someone he liked in a romantic way.
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That's cute but also kind of creepy.
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Loom introduced me to some of his works. :)
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He was a real pyotr pyuffor.
E: thank you to the four of you who upvoted this even though I had like five typos in my slightly clever wordplay joke.
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Fun additional fact, the 1812 overture canons were actually an auditory metaphor for all the russian twink backsides he blew out.
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19 Russian bears are very mad at your exclusion of their people
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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
https://youtu.be/QCKL95HAdQ8?si=h3JIM6SBM5aUdNw_
Very true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.
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.
I don't know, Tolkien dwarves tend to be a little more boubah whereas Russian composers tend to be a little more Kiiki