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
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
For those who don't know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Borodin is a very Tolkieny name. It's also not too different from the DND dwarf god Moradin, so
Well yeah. I thought everyone knew he wrote the Gayteen Twelve Homoture.
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That was incredibly immature. sigh. I upvoted.
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.
On the next episode of "historical figures who were gay as fuck"... Leonardo Da Vinci.
King James.
Yep, the bible guy.
Russians: Tchaikovsky no!
Probably why he's so mega gay tbh
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.
That's cute but also kind of creepy.
Loom introduced me to some of his works. :)
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.
Warning, YouTube shorts link
Fun additional fact, the 1812 overture canons were actually an auditory metaphor for all the russian twink backsides he blew out.
19 Russian bears are very mad at your exclusion of their people