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Posted on: 3-6-06

Romy the Cat

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Thread: Tchaikovsky Symphony #4
           Reply: Misunderstood Tchaikovsky.  
 Ronnie wrote:
Interesting how the greatness of their works, and the "mental illness" of Tchaikovsky and of Nietzsche (the guy who gave name to Dimas SS amp!) coincided in the end of the 1880-ies.
This is complicated. I personally do not subscribe to the "mental illness" of Tchaikovsky. I also very much not pleased how Tchaikovsky described and understood in western musical literature. (It is not that Russian do better to portray Tchaikovsky, BTW)  Everywhere Tchaikovsky presented as a tormented and plagued homosexual but it was very much not the case, in fact I have my own serious reasons to believe that Tchaikovsky was not a homosexual.  It is juts very "convenient" for an ordenary person to understand Tchaikovsky as a “masochist” and as “suffering soil” but the realty was much more complicated and different then juts easy labeling Tchaikovsky as the person who “feel bad” because the “Prozac was not invented yet”....

THe Cat
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
 Posted Date All replies in the thread
  4-26-05   Tchaikovsky Symphony #4   (4-26-05)..Romy the Cat
  10-27-05   Tchaikovsky Symphony #4+1   (10-27-05)..Ronnie
  10-28-05   Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony   (10-28-05)..Romy the Cat
  10-30-05   Re: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony   (10-30-05)..dazzdax
  11-11-05   Tchaikovsky’s Fifth: the witnessing ...   (11-11-05)..Romy the Cat
  3-6-06   Re: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony   (3-6-06)..Ronnie
  3-6-06   The Fifth Symphony   (3-6-06)..Romy the Cat
  3-6-06   Re: The Fifth Symphony   (3-6-06)..Ronnie
  3-6-06   Misunderstood Tchaikovsky.   (3-6-06)..Romy the Cat
  3-7-06   Misunderstandings   (3-7-06)..Ronnie
  3-7-06   Tchaikovsky's letters   (3-7-06)..hifitodd
  3-7-06   Re: Tchaikovsky's letters and not only   (3-7-06)..Romy the Cat
  3-12-06   Tchaikovsky bass calibration   (3-12-06)..Ronnie
  3-12-06   Re: LP bass calibration   (3-12-06)..Romy the Cat
  5-30-06   Tchaikowsky bass calibration joke   (5-30-06)..Ronnie
  5-30-06   Tchaikovsky/Koussevitzky 4 is real high-end audio!   (5-30-06)..Romy the Cat
  8-31-09   Russia - Land of the Tsars: the music   (8-31-09)..Romy the Cat

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