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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_

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Sigh…. (Upvoted)

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This hurts me. Here’s an upvote

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That was incredibly immature. sigh. I upvoted.

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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.

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

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King James.

Yep, the bible guy.

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