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The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg , based on Beloved Friend , a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .
The Music Lovers: Directed by Ken Russell. With Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable. Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his latent homosexuality by getting married.
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- 1971-02-17
Directed by Ken Russell. With Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson and Max Adrian.The Music Lovers Blu-ray (BFI) https://shop.bfi.org.uk/the-music-lovers-blu-...
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The Music Lovers. Composer Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain), sees his wife (Glenda Jackson) go mad and dies of cholera. No matter how miserable his actual life, the classical composer tends to ...
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A biographical film about the life and music of Tchaikovsky, who struggles with his homosexuality and marries a nymphomaniac. The film depicts his artistic achievements, his relationship with a wealthy patron, and his tragic marriage.
Roger Ebert. January 1, 1971. 3 min read. Ken Russell ‘s “The Music Lovers” is an involved and garish private fantasy which Russell, alas, presents to us as the life of Tchaikovsky. Poor Tchaikovsky. I know it is against the rules to complain that this or that detail may not be precisely accurate, or that Tchaikovsky may not have been ...
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The 1,200 letters they exchanged between 1877 and 1890, in which Tchaikovsky discussed his work, were the basis of Beloved Friend, the book that was the inspiration for The Music Lovers. Beloved Friend was written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, the wife of Nadezhda's grandson.
