Favorite composer by manner of death

[Karl Henning]

Wagner's would be my favorite death, what manner soever (j/k)

[DaveF]

Failed Brain Surgery

Have we got that one yet?  Gibbons was brain haemorrhage, diagnosed by opening up his skull afterwards, but that hardly counts.

Alkan: buried under his manuscripts when cupboard fell on top of him.

A pity he wasn't one of those less prolific French composers - Duparc, Duruflé or Barraqué could have effortlessly batted away the few flimsy sheets containing their complete works, had they fallen on them.

What about Purcell - forgetting his keys?  (There's a dreadful pun to do with his weird harmony waiting there to be explored.)

DF

[mahler10th]

Bicycle accident----------Chausson
Gunshot wound-------Webern
Suicide (drinking water contaminated with cholera)------Tchaikovsky
Suicide (other)------------Rott
Syphilis---------Schubert
Other (specify)---Crushed! (legends have it)--------Alkan

There is no record of Hans Rott committing suicide.   

Thread Duty:

From Wjkki:
In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Magnard sent his wife and two daughters to a safe hiding place while he stayed behind to guard the estate of Manoir de Fontaines at Baron, Oise. When German soldiers trespassed, he fired at them, killing one of them, and they fired back and set the house on fire. It is believed that Magnard died in the fire, but his body could not be identified in the remains.

Wow.  Died in a shootout.  Protecting the estate.  Outnumbered.  The death of a Hero.

[Karl Henning]

Have we got that one yet?  Gibbons was brain haemorrhage, diagnosed by opening up his skull afterwards, but that hardly counts.

Ah, trepanning! Those were the days!

[Parsifal]

Have we got that one yet?  Gibbons was brain haemorrhage, diagnosed by opening up his skull afterwards, but that hardly counts.

My favorite composer to die of failed brain surgery is Ravel.

[DaveF]

My favorite composer to die of failed brain surgery is Ravel.

Now I think I'm just beginning to understand the point of the thread, fun though it's been nevertheless... you wanted our favourite composers who have died in each of these ways (duh).  Right - my favourite composer to have died from having a sex worker tie his testicles to a doorknob is... no, I don't want to rush into this - can I come back to you?

DF

[jochanaan]

...What about Purcell - forgetting his keys?  (There's a dreadful pun to do with his weird harmony waiting there to be explored.)

I thought that was Gesualdo--or Schoenberg.

[North Star]

Amazing, Scriabin hasn't been mentioned here! Septicemia contracted from an infected boil on his lip or shaving cut.

[Karl Henning]

You see how unnecessary it is to shave!

[Brahmsian]

You see how unnecessary it is to shave!

 

Well....Taneyev 'caught a cold/flu' after attending Scriabin's funeral and died soon after.  I wonder if the Septicemia spread. 

[North Star]

You see how unnecessary it is to shave!

And perilous, even.

[Parsifal]

And perilous, even.

And when mis-use of antibiotics has rendered them completely ineffective due to the rise of drug-resistant strains, it will once again be perilous to shave. 

[North Star]

And when mis-use of antibiotics has rendered them completely ineffective due to the rise of drug-resistant strains, it will once again be perilous to shave. 

Aww, don't be sad. 


(though I suppose one needs more than just the beard in order to write that music..)

[Dax]

Cardew - hit and run: or, as some suspect, political assassination.

[Karl Henning]

Support the Arts! Grow a Beard!

[Parsifal]

File this under "Other":

Silvestre Revueltas literally composed himself to death.   In the last years of his life, worked like a horse, and died of exhaustion.

In a harness, pulling a cart full of his manuscripts?

[aquablob]

James.

Reese.

Europe.

[Mirror Image]

Revueltas actually died of pneumonia, not exhaustion. Also, being a hardcore alcoholic didn't help him either.

[North Star]

Schönberg's triskaidekaphobic death at the age of 76, on July 13th, 1950, is worth a mention, surely.