Name that composer death

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Mirror Image

#20
January 12, 2017, 08:21:53 AM
Hint: This composer died following quite a risky brain surgery.

Florestan

#21
January 12, 2017, 08:34:43 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 12, 2017, 08:21:53 AM
Hint: This composer died following quite a risky brain surgery.

Ravel.

Now, who died gun in hand fighting Germans in WWI?
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

Mahlerian

#22
January 12, 2017, 08:36:06 AM
Quote from: Florestan on January 12, 2017, 08:34:43 AM
Now, who died gun in hand fighting Germans in WWI?

Magnard, of course.

Who died saying "Mozartl"?
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Florestan

#23
January 12, 2017, 08:37:24 AM
Quote from: Mahlerian on January 12, 2017, 08:36:06 AM
Who died saying "Mozartl"?

Mahler, of course.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

Florestan

#24
January 12, 2017, 08:52:21 AM
These three guys have been stabbed to death.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

listener

#25
January 17, 2017, 12:35:06 PM
Quote from: Florestan on January 12, 2017, 08:52:21 AM
These three guys have been stabbed to death.
Alesandro Stradella is one  (had to look up Flotow because I couldn't remember the name)
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

Florestan

#26
January 18, 2017, 02:17:51 AM
Quote from: listener on January 17, 2017, 12:35:06 PM
Alesandro Stradella is one  (had to look up Flotow because I couldn't remember the name)

Right.

Hint for the other two: they were both French.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

ritter

#27
January 18, 2017, 02:52:54 AM Last Edit: January 18, 2017, 03:02:00 AM by ritter
Quote from: Florestan on January 18, 2017, 02:17:51 AM
Right.

Hint for the other two: they were both French.
Leclair & Vivier. The story of the Vivier's demise is particularly scabrous (with the piece he was working on when it happened being almost prophetic of the event  ::) )...

An easy one: which composer drowned, after jumping off a lifeboat in an attempt to save his wife's life? The boat on which they were crossing the English Channel had been torpedoed...

Florestan

#28
January 18, 2017, 07:33:49 AM
Quote from: ritter on January 18, 2017, 02:52:54 AM
Leclair & Vivier. The story of the Vivier's demise is particularly scabrous (with the piece he was working on when it happened being almost prophetic of the event  ::) )...

Right on Leclair, wrong on Vivier who was Canadian.  :laugh:

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An easy one: which composer drowned, after jumping off a lifeboat in an attempt to save his wife's life? The boat on which they were crossing the English Channel had been torpedoed...

Enrique Granados.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

vandermolen

#29
January 18, 2017, 08:55:41 AM
Died at the bottom of a steep hill on a bicycle.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Florestan

#30
January 18, 2017, 08:57:43 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 18, 2017, 08:55:41 AM
Died at the bottom of a steep hill on a bicycle.

Chausson.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

vandermolen

#31
January 18, 2017, 10:21:49 AM
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#32
January 18, 2017, 10:24:04 AM
Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on December 31, 2016, 04:48:38 AM
Who was the chap that was killed in a War? Not Butterworth, someone else?
Ernest Farrar? The teacher of Finzi.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#33
January 18, 2017, 10:24:44 AM
Crushed under a cupboard full of his music manuscripts.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Florestan

#34
January 18, 2017, 10:33:42 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 18, 2017, 10:24:44 AM
Crushed under a cupboard full of his music manuscripts.

Alkan.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

North Star

#35
January 18, 2017, 10:45:58 AM
Quote from: Florestan on January 18, 2017, 10:33:42 AM
Alkan.
Not quite.
QuoteFor many years it was believed that Alkan met his death when a bookcase toppled over and fell on him as he reached for a volume of the Talmud from a high shelf. This tale, which was circulated by the pianist Isidor Philipp,[75] is dismissed by Hugh Macdonald, who reports the discovery of a contemporary letter by one of his pupils explaining that Alkan had been found prostrate in his kitchen, under a porte-parapluie (a heavy coat/umbrella rack), after his concierge heard his moaning. He had possibly fainted, bringing it down on himself while grabbing out for support. He was reportedly carried to his bedroom and died later that evening.[76] The story of the bookcase may have its roots in a legend told of Aryeh Leib ben Asher, rabbi of Metz, the town from which Alkan's family originated.[77]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Valentin_Alkan#Death
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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vandermolen

#36
January 18, 2017, 10:47:00 AM
Quote from: Florestan on January 18, 2017, 10:33:42 AM
Alkan.
10/10 you should enter the Mastermind TV quiz programme choosing tragic deaths of composers as your special subject.  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#37
January 18, 2017, 10:47:40 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 12, 2017, 08:21:53 AM
Hint: This composer died following quite a risky brain surgery.
This could also, sadly, apply to Gershwin.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#38
January 18, 2017, 10:48:37 AM
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Jo498

#39
January 18, 2017, 11:02:04 AM
accidental mushroom poisoning?

drowning in a freak boating accident?


And not a composer, but one of my favorites (to defend sleeping in because rising too early in the morning can be lethal): having to rise too early (and in a climate he was not used to). There is a musical connection as the person responsible for these harsh conditions later lived in a warmer country and received the dedication of an historically somewhat important set of musical pieces.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal
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