#classical meme

[mattsmemes]

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

“Oh my god who just — THALPIUS WAS THAT YOU?!”

[general-luce]

I’m late for the Ides, but...

[ourmadramblr]

That’s just how they roll

[neon-elliot]

He is a very good boy

[modesevenshitpost]

made a fanfic about ancient Greek heroes in a quest across the sea but I kept switching out romantic partners such that by the time the story concludes, none of the original pairings are part of it anymore, call that the Ship of Theseus

[leckmichimarsch1782]

Real Liszt Story

i love me some juicy gossip about some composers so lets do the one who’s making me question my self worth as a musician momentarily,, I promise to do debussy’s soap opera love life really soon though, anyway I saw this little anecdote on a reasonably well designed site so i’m just going to be rational and assume it’s 100% true.

liszt was the absolute concert hall chad of the 1830′s (fuck thalberg his contributions to piano technique and music in general are nowhere near as numerous or cool as liszt’s.  he did only one thing i like which was delivering one of the shadiest lines i’ve ever heard.  people kept asking him when he was going to go against liszt in a public piano duel and he answered “i don’t play with accompaniment” lmfao)

some people say liszt was the first rock star, but at his concerts, he didn’t dive into the crowd.  ladies dove onto HIM.  according to classical music legend, liszt’s concerts were so crazy that men would scream like goats having full-bodied orgasms from the musical climaxes, and women ripped their clothes off exposing their bare tiddies in public. if you have any doubts about this, im just going off of what everyone else makes his concerts sounds like.  the point is, being an 1830′s sex icon meant many probable instances of boinking.  but one day, liszt boinked a crazy person.

lola montez was a very interesting woman.  im just talking out of my ass, in reality she had no talent in any capacity, for dancing or music, but still found success by having sex with all the right people.  kings, notable celebrities of the time, and yes, liszt, who used his contacts to secure her a role in an opera, which was a catastrophe as her singing was utter shit.  apparently they had a john/yoko relationship where the brilliant musician tolerated his girlfriends horrible singing because he saw the value in her as a person, and at the end of the day, that’s all that really matters.  but while there is a case to be made for yoko ono having talent in other areas, lola montez was probably talentless in all regards.

one of her most infamous moments was at a dancing tour of hers for gold miners in australia where she actually, according to historian Michael Cannon, “[raised] her skirts so high that the audience could see she wore no underclothing at all.”  After a bad review of one particular show, she literally attacked the editor responsible with a whip.  and at yet another show, she practically got booed off the stage after insulting the whole audience because of a few hecklers. she seriously did have a habit of firing pistols to frighten her boyfriends, and did in fact routinely attack people with whips too i guess.  wasn’t she so dreamy?

in 1842 liszt and lola got a room somewhere and did what people in the 1800s apparently thought was as bad as murder if you weren’t married, and lola promptly fell asleep afterwards.  liszt, aware that she’d brought a pistol, and likely deciding then that he should take his chance to get out of there, quietly left the hotel room, went downstairs, and stopped for only a moment at the desk of the concierge.  aware also of lola’s raging temper he drew a bundle of cash from his pocket and gave it to the hotel “for the damages that were to ensue” before getting the hell out of there.

when lola woke up she went actually ape shit and fucking smashed and shot at every piece of furniture in the entire room.

then she chased liszt all the way across europe to bonn in germany, but they would up breaking up all the same.

so, since liszt and her split up.... it’s a happy ending i guess?

anyway hope you enjoyed, next i plan to cover debussy’s scandalous romantic life, and probably satie’s weird habits too

ciao 

[dr-med]