"Hot Samwise and Classical Rasputin": Wagner & Gesualdo

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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SURE, THESE COMPOSERS ARE LITERALLY THE WORST... BUT THEY DID WRITE SOME BANGING TUNES. Yes, in this episode of That Classical Podcast we reveal the composers you love to hate, and explore their extra-marital affairs, gruesome double-murders and inexplicable tree-cutting rampages. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello! Hello. I'm Kelly Harlot and I'm Sasha Kelly and you're listening to that
0:18.3	classical podcast. Welcome everybody once again or hello for the first time if you're new today we're going to talk
0:24.3	about the composers who were pretty horrific people it was inspired by my dating life
0:29.7	kill yeah oh my god fiction to the choir So they're pretty horrible people, but they made some beautiful music.
0:36.2	So it's a really interesting contrast we've got today.
0:38.8	And Sasha, who will you be starting us off?
0:40.9	I'm starting with the badest of all the guys, Gelli. I'm starting with Wagner because he's someone who
0:46.7	like don't we all talk about everyone's like oh he's so awful and things but
0:50.9	not. Exactly why was he? well why don't we find out with a cheeky
0:56.4	60 second biography good luck to Sasha it's her first ever one and I'm a really
1:01.9	slow person tell you I'm always slow. It's going to be absolutely fine. I'm really excited about it.
1:06.8	Okay, so you're going to time me? I am indeed. Are you ready? Are you steady and go. So he's born in Le seek in Germany, 1813 and lives through to 1883,
1:15.8	I'll respect for a amount of time.
1:16.8	He wanted desperately to go to university but because he hadn't finished school
1:19.7	he did informal study.
1:20.8	He did formal study for six months but he studied studied heaps the scores, mainly Beethoven.
1:24.1	He does lots of things, he falls in love, he travels around, he ends up in Russia, married.
1:27.7	In 1893, they have so much that they have to run away from Russia, and this is basically
1:31.1	what Bhagna does best, run away from stuff.
1:33.2	They go to Paris for a while, he starts making money by writing articles and short stories.
1:37.6	Goes back to Dresden where he has a jolly time, he gets caught up in a political upheaval he has
1:40.9	to leave, he doesn't come back to Germany for 12 years
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