#pathetique

don’t you just love it when the guy you like asks for your advice to ask his crush to prom and reassure him that she’ll say yes cause he’s just such a great guy.

can someone be my buddy, just someone i can talk to about anything going on

Tchaikovsky’s pieces were extremely triumphant and joyful, with a deeper meaning which is quite contemplative. However, there is one piece which is in complete contrast to his style. It is the fourth movement from his sixth symphony. The third movement ends, triumphant as ever, but as the fourth movement begins, so does a tale of deep sorrow.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was homosexual, and wanted to marry his nephew Vladimir Davydov, who was also homosexual. However, he was scared of the society. Societies were extremely homophobic back then, and to save his reputation when the secret was almost out, he seemed to have committed suicide, or perhaps the court told him to do so as the the reputation of such and influential man should not be ruined.

People assume it is a suicide as in his will, he refused to allow his body to be checked by a doctor. Earlier too, he had unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, but eventually fled abroad. The cause of his death was declared cholera.