Piano Four-Hands: Schubert and the Performance of Gay Male Dire | 19th-Century Mic | Universy of California Prs

Contents:

• 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

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.

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.

SCHUBERT: WAS HE GAY?

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. Ccial qutns were raised, though not satisfactorily addrsed: Is there any mil importance to a poser's homosexualy? Can we generalize about homosexual taste?

WAS SCHUBERT GAY?

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.

IS THE POSER, FRANZ SCHUBERT GAY?

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.

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.