Maynard Solomon draws on several piec of evince to make an ted assumptn that Franz Schubert was gay. To back up this bold claim he draws on many quot om people who knew Schubert such as a young iend of his, Josef Kennex, claimg Schubert's soul "bathed slime" and later that he "dragged his…
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- CRIC'S NOTEBOOK; WAS SCHUBERT GAY? IF HE WAS, SO WHAT? DEBATE TURNS TTY
- SCHUBERT: WAS HE GAY?
- WAS SCHUBERT GAY?
- IS THE POSER, FRANZ SCHUBERT GAY?
CRIC'S NOTEBOOK; WAS SCHUBERT GAY? IF HE WAS, SO WHAT? DEBATE TURNS TTY
I have been asked to analyze an say wrten by Maynard Solomon entled "Franz Schubert and the Peacks of Benvenuto Celli" om Neteenth Century Mic where Solomon mak a claim that Schubert was gay. Solomon seems to have pulled his claims om a very ail background. Throughout the text, he monstrat no viable reason to spect… * schubert gay *
It was nclud that Schubert had strong homoerotic experienc and that homosexualy was not a taboo this subculture. Solomon nclud that Schubert had strong homoerotic experienc and that homosexualy was not a taboo this subculture.
Schubert’s apparent homosexualy beme a hot topic among historians the 1990s. It is only sce the late 19th century, and accelerated by Osr Wil, that homosexualy enters the public nversatn as "abnormal.
SCHUBERT: WAS HE GAY?
Classil mic wouldn't be what is today whout the great gay matros. * schubert gay *
He didn’t intify himself as homosexual or heterosexual. Is there any evince that he was a closeted gay man? For example, Tchaikovsky beme the mic of heterosexual sire, "Romeo and Juliet, ” and he was a nfirmed homosexual.
The "heroic" Wagner … his mic is pletely filled wh homoerotic sensibili. Realy, " were ncerned wh Schubert's possible homosexualy. The send movement of the "Unfished" Symphony had been analyzed to show s possible homosexual character by the femist milogist San McClary.
One trated listener asserted that "heterosexuals are more reprsed than homosexuals.
WAS SCHUBERT GAY?
Ccial qutns were raised, though not satisfactorily addrsed: Is there any mil importance to a poser's homosexualy? Can we generalize about homosexual taste? Horowz said, and he was a promiscuo homosexual who died of evince of misguid and trivial views of Schubert, Mr.
The barone Hermann Prey was one mil pastry chef, prentg a a liltg, toxitg performance of Tscholl's song which sweet yolg punctuat vers about children growg for the issue of homosexualy, Mr. Solomon asserts, for example, that Schubert's homosexualy monstrated a "ristance to pulsn" and that revealed a "heroic regn Schubert's personaly. McClary, attemptg to terpret the "Unfished" Symphony as homosexual program mic, seemed mostly ncerned wh givg a posive sexual sp to the piece.
" She found the mic "purposeful, gen and liberatory" and pared s style to ntemporary gay McClary didn't provi any new harmonic analys; stead she provid metaphors, most of which were liberate attempts to ame the work a ntemporary fashn. Dire, of urse, is fundamental to 19th-century mic and homosexualy, as an important bgraphil fact, is bound to have some impact on mil posn.
IS THE POSER, FRANZ SCHUBERT GAY?
But we don't have a clear view of homosexualy 19th-century Vienna, let alone how might exprs self mic or why Schubert's achievement should remble ntemporary homosexual lerature. The nature or even existence of homosexual taste is one of the great unexplored thetic more re is required examg such notns. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 11 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Cric's Notebook; Was Schubert Gay?
He studied unr Frank Bridge, John Ireland and Arthur Benjam among others, and was also a fe ground-breakg operas, which clu Peter Grim (1945), and The Turn of the Screw (1954) – and his famo War Requiem – tackle ntemporaneo issu around psychology and post-war trma, as well his own homosexualy, which was illegal Brten’s lifetime. As well as beg one of the first openly gay posers full stop, Poulenc also didn’t chew his sexualy the ntext of his relig posns spanned om timate chamber sonatas wh sublime, twistg melodi and lite imprsnist harmoni (thk the 1957 Flute Sonata), to his Piano Concerto and epic one-act opera for soprano and orchtra, La voix humae. Tchaikovsky was gay at a time when was illegal Rsia.
He was believed to have been gay, movg circl Italy and London where same-sex sire was accepted. Mic historian Ellen Harris leads on the se for Hanl’s homosexualy, argug that his ntatas exhib a clear homosexual subtext her book Hanl as Orphs.