Italian pianist blows the whistle on gay composers

Italian pianist blows the whistle on gay composers

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norman lebrecht

December 31, 2021

The pianist and activist Luca Ciammarughi has published a book about the gay lives of great composers.

Starting with Handel and Schubert – both cases disputed by established scholars – he adds Chopin to the gay list, arguing that George Sand was not his lover but his cover. Ciammarughi further contends that a composer’s sexuality is buried in the music he writes.

Britten, for one, would have furiously denied that.

But the debate continues.

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