Comments on: Top 10 Composers Who Died Unnatural or Odd Deaths

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:00:12 +0000

Hello Arthur. A most interesting post you have submitted. My father’s side of the family are completely from Quebec. His younger brother lives in a Northern suburb of Montreal (Dorval) and he also sings classically. My Dad was a concert trained pianist who performed in concerts, recitals and competitions (amateur strictly) and my Grandfather was a part-time professional opera singer who specialized in Wagnerian roles (The Flying Dutchman, especially) and was very good friends with the Great Canadian Tenor Raoul Jobin. Well, you have given me some research for the day. Thanks for the blog.

By: arthur

arthur — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:24:46 +0000

Look up Claude Vivier. Quebecois composer whose death was tabloid-worthy. Great music, though.

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:29:03 +0000

The thought of how Ernest Chausson died in a bicycle accident still has me baffled. Sure, I can envision a person getting killed by on coming traffic, but to accidentally bicycling down a hill and hitting the cement wall of a building and dying instantly will always be on the back burner of my mind

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:09:54 +0000

I watched a piano recital on Public TV about 25 years ago. The pianist was none other than Vladimir Horowitz. During the intermission, he was led back stage to meet two very elderly ladies. One was Tchaikovsky’s niece and the other lady was the daughter of Alexander Scriabin. Horowitz had a resume of unbelievable proportions. Many people don’t know that Horowitz’ father in law was Arturo Toscanini (he married his daughter Wanda). When Horowitz was a young child (11-12) and was already a prodigy at the piano. Horowitz met Scriabin and performed for him in Scriabin’s parlor. According to Horowitz, he was already madly insane with his blood poisoning. But that is an amazing link if you think about it

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:03:21 +0000

Ernest Chausson’s death was just a very freak accident and dying at the age of 44

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:00:50 +0000

Here’s another one. Robert Schmann from Germany who died at the age of 46 (1810-1856). And he died utterly insane, attempted suicide twice and spent the last few years of his life in an insane asylum. The question still remains, did Johannes Brahms have an affair with Clara Schumann, Robert’s wife. That’s another interesting thing that I would love to get an answer for

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:56:27 +0000

No, that is the absolute truth, Ernest Chausson did die while riding his bicycle. He hit an enbankment, stayed on the bike to try to control it and did die instantly as he rammed into the brick wall of a building

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:51:32 +0000

Well the thing with Mozart is he was practically born sick. There is a book called “1791, Mozarts Last Year” if you go to the back of the book, there is a chapter strictly devoted to everything that he ever contracted, plus he over worked himself. I think what most people are trying to get an answer to is how and what did he exactly die from. He was doomed even as a child with illnesses.

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:47:30 +0000

So my question is this along with many others who would like a straight answer. What was the official death of MOZART on December 5th, 1791. I don’t think that we will ever know. I do know that Modest Mussorgsky literally drank himself to death. And though not a composer but one of the most brilliant pianists of the 20th century was Glenn Gould. There is a movie about him filmed in a semi-documentary style entitled “32 Short Films Of Glenn Gould”. He was very eccentric, and was an absolute hydrochondriac. It is said in the aforementioned movie that he was taking 60 different medications per day due to the side effects of the other medications and to relieve those side effects. He also had OCD and was obsessed with numbers. He had this vision that he was going to die at the age of 50. In 1982, he died…………..at the age of 50 !! But, if you want to listen to the Piano works of one Johann Sebastian Bach, make sure its performed by Gould. “The Art Of The Fugue”, “The Well-Tempered Clavier and “The Goldberg Variations” as Gould was the greatest interpreter of Bach’s Piano Music in all of recording history.

By: Fieppseut

Fieppseut — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:36:56 +0000

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