A Study Of The Acceptance History Of Tchaikovsky Homosexuality After The 1940s

The homosexual identity of Tchaikovsky,one of the most famous Russian composer in second half of the nineteenth century,and how it effects his music style,has been one of the hot spots in recent scholarly research.This topic is significantly meaningful to comprehend his character,creative thoughts and music connotation.However,due to the sensibility and privacy of the homosexual issue and the difference of open-mindedness between various countries,the acceptance state of Tchaikovsky's homosexual issue is influenced by time and culture.The first time that Tchaikovsky' homosexual issue started to attract concerns in Western Europe and America is the 1940 s.Within the following4 decades,the research in regard of his homosexuality includes most of aspects such as Tchaikovsky's homosexual and the influence that the homosexuality exerts to his mental state?character as well as his composing,in spite of the fact that none of these aspects went deeply enough.As scholars had various theories on his death,the issue of Tchaikovsky's homosexuality back to the centre of attention in the world wide in 1980 s.In 1980 s,the Taboo of the topic that Tchaikovsky is homosexual had been broken,his homosexual orientation has been confirmed.In western Ourope and American,as the thrive of new musicalogy,the tendency that unsracmble the musical product by explosing it into permissive culture environment had became dominating resulting research on Tchaikovsky's sexual character became a hot topic.However,in China,research about this issue hardly raised any concerns,generally being in thes state of passive acceptance until recently scholars has been trying to recognize the latent sexual oriental character in his music.This paper consisted of two sections.The purpose of section one is to present the skeleton of reception history of Tchaikovsky's homosexual identity,in order to demonstrate the research results on this topic in different countries and time,as well as indicate the happening trend ofresearch.Section two analyzes three topics on the issue of Tchaikovskys' homosexuality after 1940 s,apart from absorbing the essencials of relative product,deeply rethinking the protential problem of existing results.