The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers is a 1970 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 directors 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.

The films title card reads Ken Russells Film on Tchaikovsky and The Music Lovers to differentiate it from Tchaikovsky, a Russian film released the previous year.Director Russell hired his wife Shirley as costume designer and cast four of their children Alexander, Victoria, James, and Xavier in small roles. ........

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