Was schubert gay

Personality makes a pianist, not who he does the lurrrrrve thing with. Also, I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a way of tieing the 12 inch pianist joke into this thread, but I just can't find a way. Currently learing: - Chopin: Ballade No.

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Some have suggested it. Some have denied it. A gay musician? Now with the rise of studies in feminine and homosexual studies in musicology questions like OP are being asked all over. The article created a shitstorm of controversy and popular prurient interest. A poor overview of scholarly debates on the article until is available.

15 LGBTQ+ composers in classical music history that you probably already know

Copland, whose best-known works include Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man , was a famously private man, but unearthed letters between him and artist Prentiss Taylor indicate an intimate relationship. Unlike Copland, US composer Samuel Barber made no effort to keep his homosexuality out of explicit view and his life partner was composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who he studied with at the Curtis Institute.

Heine wrote this poem which incorporated many Jewish undertones, because it was purposely written from a Jewish perspective. Schubert manifested his own life in two different avenues by being a successful composer and a homosexual, which was highly frowned upon in Vienna in the 19th century.