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Exploring the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers

Series in which Professor Robert Winston explores the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered mental and physical illness

Robert Winston's Musical Analysis: Series 3

Robert Winston's Musical Analysis: Series 3: Episode 1: Tchaikovsky

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Episode 1: Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky

BBC Radio 4 - Robert Winston's Musical Analysis, Series 3, Tchaikovsky

Prof Winston explores if Tchaikovsky's music reveals a psychologically-damaged man.

Prof Robert Winston investigates the theory that Tchaikovsky's music reveals a man who was psychologically damaged by the conflict between his nature and society's expectations.

Professor Robert Winston brings a scientist's ear to his passion for music, exploring the medical histories of great composers and how illness affected the music they wrote.

The romantic sweep of Tchaikovsky's music has made him a favourite with audiences for over a century. But is it possible that the extremes of emotion expressed in his best loved symphonies, ballets and operas were the product of a man tormented? Professor Winston examines Tchaikovsky's experience of living as a gay man in 19th century Russia, where homosexuality was illegal, and puts under the microscope the theory that Tchaikovsky's music reveals a man who was psychologically damaged by the conflict between his nature and society's expectations.

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