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Talk about music, movies, TV, books, other types of entertainment and what your vices are. Also, if you're addicted to the high you get off Aspirin, this is the place to talk about it.
It's true that Tchaikovsky was gay. In fact, he wrote a violin concerto (widely considered to be one of the best Romantic-Era pieces ever) for his lover, a violinist. And this was all while he was married. Anyway, I'll contest Corpse's claim that Mozart was the "most gifted" of all composers. He's up there, but he's certainly not unrivalled. Besides, it's rather difficult to compare composers who lived hundreds of years apart, because their composition style is so radically different from one another. For instance, Mozart is considered to be a genius in every form of classical composition, whereas Chopin is considered a genius only in piano works, though many consider his piano works to be the best ever.
So anyway, when it comes to choosing between the "elite" composers, it mainly all boils down to personal preference.
Mr. Teatime wrote:I never knew that - any links to confirm it?
Besides Franz backing me up, I'm sure it'd be easy to find. Infact, I just found it acouple of times in a basic search. Here you go. I actually found out on the inside slip of my "Classical Music for Dummies" cd (It had abunch of good songs for 5 bucks).