Trivia

Some of the interior scenes of Madame Nadedja von Meck's estate would later be used in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975).

In a biography of Alan Bates, director Ken Russell mentions that he offered Bates the lead role of Tchaikovsky during the filming of Mujeres apasionadas (1969). Although Bates admired the script, he turned the role down.

Ken Russell offered the leading role of Sister Jeanne to Glenda Jackson in Los demonios (1971), 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.

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.

Many years after appearing in this film as "Alexei", Bruce Robinson remembered it by remarking (of director Ken Russell) that "Ken was starting to lose his marbles" during the filming.