
The Music Lovers
The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include Elgar (1962), Delius: Song of Summer (1968), Mahler (1974) and Lisztomania (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint.
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author | Melvyn Bragg |
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director | Ken Russell |
editor | Michael Bradsell |
genre | drama |
musicBy | André Previn |
producer | Ken Russell |
productionCompany | Russ-Arts |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | biographical lgbt-related |