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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
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 21:28:48 1985
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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?