This composer’s writings refer to his closeted homosexuality using the letter “z” and the phrase “xx
This composer’s writings refer to his closeted homosexuality using the letter “z” and the phrase “xxx.” In a symphony by this composer, the andante second movement contains a horn solo shortly after the key shifts from B minor to D major. This composer, who was patronized for thirteen years by Nadezhda von Meck, included a bassoon solo marked with six “p”s and a 5/4 “limping waltz” in his final symphony, which premiered just over a week before his death. For 10 points, what Russian composer’s sixth symphony in B minor is nicknamed “Pathetique”?