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[–] ninjabard 81 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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_

[–] Drunemeton 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Very true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.

[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't know, Tolkien dwarves tend to be a little more boubah whereas Russian composers tend to be a little more Kiiki

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Borodin is a very Tolkieny name. It's also not too different from the DND dwarf god Moradin, so

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 36 points 4 days ago
[–] FlyingSquid 45 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Well yeah. I thought everyone knew he wrote the Gayteen Twelve Homoture.

[–] WrenFeathers 11 points 4 days ago

Sigh…. (Upvoted)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

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[–] ByteJunk 6 points 4 days ago

This hurts me. Here's an upvote

[–] RHSJack 2 points 3 days ago

That was incredibly immature. sigh. I upvoted.

[–] Dasus 21 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] Drivebyhaiku 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On the next episode of "historical figures who were gay as fuck"... Leonardo Da Vinci.

[–] FlyingSquid 8 points 4 days ago

King James.

Yep, the bible guy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

That's cute but also kind of creepy.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Stovetop 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tchaikovsky YES.

TCHAIKOVSKY ALWAYS YES.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Probably why he's so mega gay tbh

[–] JustZ 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Loom introduced me to some of his works. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fun additional fact, the 1812 overture canons were actually an auditory metaphor for all the russian twink backsides he blew out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

19 Russian bears are very mad at your exclusion of their people