...who poured out his immortal longings into dignified
passages of stately music?
or was he just an old poof who wrote tunes?
2007-08-08 05:26:22 · 6 answers · asked by Spanky McSpank 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
I would say you are a Monty Python fan. Do you have your three-stage model of Tchaikovsky as well?
2007-08-08 11:04:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tortured. But then again you're SUPPOSED to be tortured if you're a Russian composer. Look at Shostakovich- called in to Stalin's office ! Made to know he had to write proper Communist propaganda music. Peter Ilyich was called before a committee at the University where he taught (or wherever the heck it was) because he was in love with the son of a board member (or whoever it was) and made advances on the young man. He was accused of being gay and ran out of the meeting in terror. He wrote that he was trying to deal with "X" in his diaries - homosexuality.
Too bad he didn't live now in NYC.
2007-08-08 07:17:04 · answer #2 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
IMHO, Tchaikovsky was quite the tortured soul. Imagine being homosexual in Czarist Russia! No wonder he wrote his greatest symphony as a five-movement suicide note...
2007-08-08 05:37:34 · answer #3 · answered by trouchpet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man had some issues.....
When conducting the NY Philharmonic, he held on to his beard throughout the performance, because of a strange psychosis he had -- he feared his head would roll off his shoulders if he didn't.
That's a tortured soul.
2007-08-08 05:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by glinzek 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How did such beauty come from such torture? I have always wondered...
Nobody, in my opinion, created more beautiful music!
2007-08-08 10:21:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Option number one.
2007-08-08 05:37:10 · answer #6 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋