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🎹 sharon su
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Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her

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One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky”
— @violanorth.bsky.social
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Don’t make me tap the “trans rights is the new abortion access wedge issue” sign
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Thank you!
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Actually, second question, are there any particular translations you recommend
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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That’s all I need to know
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Can I ask why? I’m now looking up editions
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I want to say that neurodivergent peeps are historically overrepresented in basically all arts and literature, but I don’t want to just throw baseless assertions around

(But I totally believe it)
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Honestly I’m pretty confident asserting that more of the big composers were some-kinda-neurodivergent than not
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I know retroactively diagnosing people with anything is not great but…sometimes it just seems so obvious that you can’t believe it isn’t just accepted as fact
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Ooh thanks for the tip
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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A prologue to the prologue that’s just a 25 minute song about the history of the silver candlesticks
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I don’t think there’s any shame in that! I am a voracious speed reader and I gave up on Les Miserables
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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That’s my impression too! Who knows, maybe Victor Hugo was at that salon
November 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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It’s an incredibly accurate description!
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Okay the wiki article does not mention ghost sex, plz enlighten me
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Victor Hugo was basically a tumblr shitposter, this is absolutely incredible
When Hugo returned to Paris in 1870, the country hailed him as a national hero. He was confident that he would be offered the dictatorship, as shown by the notes he kept at the time: "Dictatorship is a crime. This is a crime I am going to commit." but he felt he had to assume that responsibility.
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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hahaha get his ass, Victor
On the other hand, he had low esteem for Richard Wagner, whom he described as "a man of talent coupled with imbecility."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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WAIT VICTOR HUGO IS THE ONE WHO INTRODUCED CHOPIN AND GEORGE SAND??
He was also on friendly terms with Frederic Chopin. He introduced him to Amantine de Francueil (known as "George Sand" despite being female) who became Chopin's lover. In 1849, Hugo attended Chopin's funeral.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Unexpected Victor Hugo/Romantic composers crossover
Two famous musicians of the 19th century were friends of Hugo: Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt. The latter played Beethoven in Hugo's home, and Hugo joked in a letter to a friend that, thanks to Liszt's piano lessons, he learned how to play a favourite song on the piano - with only one finger. Hugo also worked with composer Louise Bertin, writing the libretto for her 1836 opera La Esmeralda, which was based on the character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 1581 Although for various reasons the opera closed soon after its fifth performance and is little known today,
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What no not yet

I did get stuck on this upsetting 24601 lore
Hugo believed himself to have been conceived on 24 June 1801, which is the origin of Jean Valjean's prisoner number 24601
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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(Forgot to mention, this was also in high school)
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Reading the Wikipedia article and it’s so many things
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Same
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I became so obsessed with the musical that I checked out the unabridged book from the school library and started reading it and gave up very quickly when it was clear that no story was happening in the first dozen chapters
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM