Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis) Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.motss Subject: Re: Was Robert Schumann & Schubert gay? A Recent psychobiography Message-ID: <1217@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 21:28:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1217 Posted: Wed Aug 14 21:28:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:46:36 EDT References: <1525@bbncca.ARPA> Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.music.classical:1203 net.motss:1915 Summary: In article <1525@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes: >...During a discussion of >homoerotic writings of Schumann, Ostwald alludes in a footnote to >homoerotic poetry and other texts by Franz Peter Schubert. This reminds me of an old and well-worn joke: a member of the audience approaches a famous conductor at a cocktail party and asks, "I've always wanted to know: do you pronounce it SchuMANN or SchuBERT?" More seriously, is there any substantiation to Ludwig van Beethoven's name appearing on various lists of famous gays?