Not all famous composers died peacefully at a ripe old age. See if you can identify the composer by the clue provided. Click the "?" to see if you're correct.
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Wanting to be known only as "the French composer", he died of colon cancer at the end of World War I. |
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He suspected that he had been poisoned by a rival composer. The exact cause of his death has never been determined. |
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According to legend, he feebly raised a fist to the heavens during a fierce thunderstorm, as if challenging God, before dying at the age of 56. |
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Within a few weeks of the death of his musically gifted sister, this bachelor composer died just before his 38th birthday. |
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Although some speculate that it was suicide, tradition says that he drank a glass of unboiled tap water during a cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg. |
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It is believed he suffered from manic-depressive syndrome. In a state of despair, he jumped into the Rhone River but was pulled out. He died in an insane asylum a few years later. |
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A frail man most of his life, he succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 39. |
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During his brief life of 56 years, he witnessed the deaths of his wife and infant children due to illness. As an expression of his grief, he would write "Kindentotenlieder". |
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This "Carmen" composer died before he was 38. |
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At the age of 31, he died from complications brought on by syphillis. |
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