--- title: 'The Music Lovers (1971)' type: 'film' director: 'Ken Russell' released: '1971-01-24' runtime_minutes: 123 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-music-lovers-1971' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066109/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Music Lovers (1971) 1971 · 123 min · Drama, History · United Kingdom ## Synopsis The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. 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 director's 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ken Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-russell) - **Producer:** [Ken Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-russell) - **Screenplay:** [Melvyn Bragg](https://cinepixo.com/people/melvyn-bragg) - **Original Music Composer:** [André Previn](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-previn) - **Director of Photography:** [Douglas Slocombe](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-slocombe) ## Cast - [Bruce Robinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-robinson) - [Christopher Gable](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-gable) - [Andrew Faulds](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-faulds) - [Kenneth Colley](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-colley) - [Maureen Pryor](https://cinepixo.com/people/maureen-pryor) - [Max Adrian](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-adrian) - [Richard Chamberlain](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-chamberlain) - [Glenda Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/glenda-jackson) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-music-lovers-1971 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1731265); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.