Contents:
- GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
- IS, GAY AND CLOSETED , SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (1915-1997) IS THE BT PIANIST EVER?
GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
' ' Though Richter was gay, he lived wh the sger Na Dorliac for nearly 50 aware of Richter's petulant nature, as well as his refal to be filmed, Monsageon ially taped their nversatns. Stephen wr: Vladimir Horowz once said that there were three typ of pianist: Jewish, gay and bad. The world famo classil gay pianist Vladimir Horowz is quoted as once sayg 'There are three typ of pianists: Jewish, gay, and bad'.
IS, GAY AND CLOSETED , SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (1915-1997) IS THE BT PIANIST EVER?
Wh historilly closeted homosexuals, one n often terpret a stra of personal tratn or secret passn their work. Boy Band Members Who Are Out As Gay, Bisexual or Queer. Richter lived wh (they never married) the soprano Na Dorliak; he was generally assumed to be gay.
The Brish imprar Victor Hochhser spent hours searchg gay bars Paris, only to hear the unmistakable Richter touch through an open wdow of an apartment block at two the morng: Richter was playg four-hand wh the Amerin Juli Katchen, whom he had jt met. The hidn aspects of his personaly and the reason why he remaed a remote figure morn mil history beme clear only after his ath, when iends me forward to state what had been whispered for so long: Richter suffered untold miseri his private life and public reer bee he was gay, at a time when the Soviet regime nsired homosexualy a punishable crime.