when I first started watching classicaloid I had 0 classical music knowledge and just kind of assumed the characters were like that for comedic effect but the more I learn from people like you the more I realize classical composers were just unhinged as fuck
but yeah no all the composers were pretty out there one way or another. for more ridic shit about some other composers including hte classicaloids
erik satie refused to eat anything that wasn’t white. he only wore grey suits. he hated the sun. he also named some pieces some of the weirdest shit, like “veritable flabby preludes (for a dog)” or “desiccated embryos”
arnold schoenberg had a fear of the number thirteen. like a ridiculously wild fear, despite being born on the 13th… and dying on friday the 13th on his 76th birthday, 7+6 being 13
hector berlioz was an opium user, so you end up with pieces like “symphonie fantastique” which basically follows the story of an artist who poisoned himself with opium because unrequited love sucks and then experiences witches and Dies irae. this is just like… one of several other things. berlioz did some weird shit
mozart fucking loved potty jokes. especially about farting and poop. like they’re found everywhere in his letters
also another thing about mozart, one of his most beloved operas, don giovanni… well, some of it was literally written the day before and day of the premiere because #yolo
j.s. bach once pulled a sword on a bassoonist who accused him of slander and supposedly called him a “nanny-goat bassoonist”
he also ended up in jail for a month or so because he pissed off his boss by illegally looking for a job somewhere else while employed
joseph haydn was cheeky af and wrote a lot of music that kind of showed that (surprise symphony, farewell symphony, to name some)
or there would be some high class drama like
johannes brahms had the biggest crush on robert schumann’s wife, clara schumann (who to be fair, is a total catch because she was a fab pianist and composer). it was pretty unrequited tho so he was left just pining for her
the ever popular story of how igor stravinksy’s rite of spring starting a riot (literally) on the day of its premiere. people were so angry with the music that they just started… punching and shit
or the fact that richard wagner went off and married franz liszt’s daughter (and they’re from different schools of thought), and liszt was so livid that this all happened
The fact Richard Wagner bankrupted an opera house and then slept with the owner’s wife because he is t e r r i b l e
The time Beethoven was performing and his piano accidentally caught on fire and he just kept fucking going
Schubert was arrested for backtalking a police officer. Schubert also supposedly met beethoven once. He brought his music along and was so nervous to meet his idol. When bee pointed out a single error in his music Schubert got super flustered and left.
His letters are also a fucking trip and solidify him as “world’s most relatable composer”
Chopin was turned on by the sound of the female voice. He was also Liszt’s drinking buddy even though they could not be more different (exceptionally highlighted in Hark! A vagrant’s Chopin / Liszt comic)
Lisztomania. Just fucking lisztomania. The fact you could tell where the women were seated apparently by the dampness of the seats no i am not kidding. People would try stealing his hair.
Tchaikovsky’s mother fucking CANNONS. Also he hated the nutcracker.
I’m sorry I just I love composer facts
also js bach wrote an entire cantata on coffee addiction, the most notable line being “bring me my coffee or i will turn into a shriveled-up goat”
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