Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.motss Subject: Recent psychobiography of Robert Schumann Message-ID: <1487@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:52:01 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1487 Posted: Mon Jul 8 11:52:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 06:17:16 EDT Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.music.classical:1159 net.motss:1815 I'm looking for such a book; don't know author or title. I think it describes Schumann as homoerotic & refers to various personal writings of the composer. In an intriguing footnote about Franz Peter Schubert, it mentions a homoerotic story Schubert wrote as well as a rather large amount of homoerotic poems. For years biographers have puzzled over Schubert's nearly non-existent love-life, either remarking on the lack of women in his life, or claiming he was addicted to visiting (female) prosti- tutes. In 1822 he contracted syphilis, & was seriously ill with it for much of 1823; during his illness he wrote the melancholy song cycle "Die schoene Muellerin". Some speculate this bout of VD caused Schubert to leave the B minor symphony "unfinished" due to self-disgust. I'd appreciate any info, thanks, Ron Rizzo