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If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Pyotr Chaikovsky.
I AM the Real Chaikovsky! Considered by most Westerners to be the greatest Russian composer of all, most late 19th Century Russians think I'm actually too Westernized in my musical tendencies. Despite this criticism, as well as the flak I had to take for my preference of Y-chromosomes, my ballets "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake" are upheld as among the greatest and most popular pieces of all time.
Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test
MUSIC LESSON OF THE DAY
Amazingly, we have A LOT in common. Except, Tchiakovsky was a VERY VERY morbid man. His later pieces (like Symphony No.6 in B minor *Pathétique*), which he completed before his sudden death in 1893, has been said to be a "foreshadow" to his passing, using dark and dealth like chords. Appearantly, the secret programme of the symphony is about the love of two men - represented by the romantic theme - and the agitated passage represents the attacks of a hostile world. Til this day, no one knows if his death was suicide by drinking a small amount of aresenic, due to the harsh comments on his homosexuality or death from cholera.