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Best Foreign Film | 1972
Budget 2,000,000 USD
Some of the interior scenes of Madame Nadedja von Meck's estate would later be used in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975).
Originally released in the UK as a reserved-seat roadshow presentation, complete with overture and intermission.
In a biography of Alan Bates, director Ken Russell mentions that he offered Bates the lead role of Tchaikovsky during the filming of Women in Love (1969). Although Bates admired the script, he turned the role down.
The extras playing (miming) the orchestra in the scene featuring Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky playing the 1st Piano Concerto were mostly from the Bristol University Music Department Orchestra. They were paid 7 guineas a day (£7 and 7 shillings) each - the extras in the audience were only on 5 guineas. The scene was filmed in the Music Room of Bath Spa.
Ken Russell offered the leading role of Sister Jeanne to Glenda Jackson in The Devils. his follow-up film to The Music Lovers. Jackson refused, as she did not want to play another over-the-top sexually neurotic female character so soon after Antonina. The role went to Vanessa Redgrave.
"Antonina Milyukova: He's never loved another woman, has he, mother? No one else. But I, but I have so *many* lovers, so many lovers, so many, so many! See how many lovers, mother! See how many, how many, how many . . ."
"Modeste Tchaikovsky: I've got a title for your symphony: "The Pathetic". If it really is all about you. It's so much more fitting than "The Tragic". Just "Symphony #6 in B minor: The Pathetic"."
