The Gay Life of Tchaikovsky - PART 1
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2021
- In honour of (late) pride month, we’re talking about Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was a Russian classical composer from the Romantic period. He wrote operas, concertos, symphonies, and he played a significant role in the fusion of eastern and western classical styles- but all that trivia obviously pales in comparison to the fact that he was ✨gay✨.
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Tchaikovsky’s situation is quite interesting and unique, as despite him living a few hundred years ago, his gay exploits are actually very well documented in letters and accounts. This is unusual, as a large chunk of LGBTQIA+ history before the 20th century has been lost due to changing understandings of gender and sexuality, or more insidiously has been erased and suppressed by censors.
Tchaikovsky was born in the small town of Votkinsk in Vyatka province in the Russian Ural mountains. Both Tchaikovsky’s parents were trained in the arts, including music, and this got him into playing and composing from the get-go. By age 6 he was fluent in both French and German, and he started learning music from 5.
Tchaikovsky never particularly excelled as a pianist, but he did learn to proficiently read sheet music within three years of his studies. His nanny and teacher, Fanny Durbach, would develop a significant bond with the young composer, and would hold on to Tchaikovsky’s early compositions even as he forgot or rejected them.
True to its form, no gay story can be told without drama, abandonment or little dash of mummy issues- and Tchaikovsky experienced all of those. Tchaikovsky’s father had an unreliable income, and his parents wanted him to gain independence as soon as possible. Now at the time, the role of musician in Russia did not carry the same prestige that it did in the rest of Europe. It was a very difficult job with next to no pay. So, Tchaikovsky, although showing budding talent for music, would have to put his skills to good use elsewhere.
He was sent 800 miles away to a boarding school at just 10 years old, and then would transfer to The Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St Petersburg, with goals of becoming a civil servant.
Tchaikovsky’s brief sense of stability was rocked again by his mother’s abrupt, and painful death from cholera in 1854. Her dying, with him many hundreds of miles away, not even getting to say goodbye, seriously crystallised his fear of abandonment and rejection, and would forever influence his personality.
Tchaikovsky graduated from The Imperial School of Jurisprudence nine years later, and he quickly entered the social scene of St Petersburg. It was there that his true queer flower would begin to blossom
He entered the social and cultural milieu as a young “man-about-town”.
It was by this time that Tchaikovsky realised that the job of civil servant was just not for him, and he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatoire to study composition.
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-Waltz of the Flowers (by Tchaikovsky) by Tchaikovsky
-Funeral March (by Chopin) by Chopin
-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (by Mozart) by Mozart
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This was genuinely crack up as 😂 but also very educational, quality content. Looking forward to watching your channel blow up!
I love that exclusively gay composer. His gay confident was his brother Modest. 🥰🥰🥰
Fantastic gay Tchaikovsky.
Nice to get a new episode! Love these music essays and look forward to part 2. :)
Thanks, Jo (you talented and lavishly gorgeous young man). We need more videos on gay artists in general, such as, painters, sculptors, dancers, and others. Gary.
Yes there's so much great gay artists.
Loved this!! Looking forward to Part 2
Thanks so much! Part 2 coming next Friday
There is such a nice timbre and melody to your talking, fascinating
Nice. I was concerned u were done with youtube or something but i geuss u had school or whatever. These musician history videos r really fun.
Not done in the slightest! I have 18(ish) videos coming out over the next few months
I highly recommend Aleksandr Poznansky's scholarly work on Tchaikovsky (if you haven't read it already). There's a lot of interesting insight onto not just his sexuality, but also the gay subculture in Imperial Russia of the time, Tchaikovsky's education at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, the different facets of his personality, and his triumphs as well as his faults. We also get a detailed account of his death (Poznansky even has a whole separate book about Tchaikovsky's death as well), which dispels a lot of the rumours of suicide or assassination.
Thank you so much! I'll give it a read
@@zer-mela No problem! His book "Tchaikovsky: Quest for the Inner Man," is up on Internet Archive for free, if you want to check that one out.
Great video btw i loved the ending music
Theodore Dubois - Toccata in G 😎
Waoh I learned a lot of things watching this video.
Informative and hilarious? Love the video!
Great video 💖
I'm absolutely pissing myself. You're hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh. Another gay composer here 🤣X
Very interesting.
I’ve always loved Tchaikovsky and his music but I love him even more now
You look like the Corbet painting The Desperate Man
I'll take that as a compliment
Great, thanks!!😄😄
Yaayyyyyyy another musical upload of gay!!
WHYYYY IS THIS VIDEO NOT POPULAR IT NEEDS MORE RECOGNITION OMG
Excellent video and subject, as one gay man to another - that's me!
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!! I instantly subscribed!!!!!!!!!
hillarious
He was cute ❤
Yes really 😍
Content excellent; presentation >> shit!
Um, he didn’t live “a few hundred years ago” 😂😂😂
Jocularity and sarcasm at the expense of expositing the facts is hugely irritating.
Our Tchaikovsky not gay!🤬
Tchaikovsky was very gay.
It's definitely proven so shut ut. 😃
Absolutely he liked very young men, good point.
There's no composer as gay in the world as Tchaikovsky, except perhaps Benjamin Britten. 😁😁😁
Ironic isn't it ^^
they was just friend, not gay!
Sure Jan
What's wrong with homosexuality according to you?
Lol """not gay""" that's it 😂😂🤣
@@zer-melawhy do you feel the need to spew pre concucted narratives of who was a homosexual ive asked this question god knows how many times and there is no substantial evidence
@@onemanarmy2electricboogalo687 That's wrong : T's homosexuality is completely clear in his correspondance. It's clear in his brother's Modest autobiography. It's clear in contemporary testimonies, etc, etc... It's substantial enough I guess, so you're just a liar. 😘
One of my uncle is a pianist, and he never married, and always lived alone. He must be gay! I can't imagine anything else, that must be it. That's it! Let's celebrate him!
Perhaps he was indeed but tchaikovsky married and he was gay so perhaps your uncle wasnt married and he was straight