The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers
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Directed by	Ken Russell
Screenplay by	Melvyn Bragg
Based on	Beloved Friend, a collection of letters edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck
Produced by	Ken Russell
Starring	Richard Chamberlain Glenda Jackson
Cinematography	Douglas Slocombe
Edited by	Michael Bradsell
Music by	André Previn
Production companies	Russ-Arts Russ Films
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	25 February 1971 (1971-02-25) (London) January 24, 1971 (1971-01-24) (New York City) February 17, 1971 (1971-02-17) (United States)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$2 million[1]

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.