Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. Although effort was made to censor any suggestion of homosexuality from Tchaikovsky's surviving letters,[1][2] thanks to the work of historians and biographers[3] he is now widely acknowledged to be a homosexual. Seen positively as a "Queer Composer,"[4] the evidence suggests that Tchaikovsky was most romantically and sexually drawn to youthful features and young males in their teens and 20s.[5]
A book review for Debauched Genius: The Loves of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2021), discusses his sex life and sexual attractions in the wake of newly available documents published in 2018.[6]
References
- ↑ Love in the Shadows: Tchaikovsky's Censored Letters, Classical California KDFC (July, 2024).
- ↑ Dalya Alberge, Tchaikovsky and the secret gay loves censors tried to hide (The Guardian, 2018).
- ↑ See Marina Kostalevsky (ed.), The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive (Yale University Press, 2018).
- ↑ Queer Composers - The Advocate.
- ↑ For a breakdown, see: Is there any evidence that the composer Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky was a pedophile/pederast? - Reditt thread (2020).
- ↑ Review of D.H. Gutzman, Debauched Genius, The Loves of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2021) - William Percy Foundation (Feb 2021).