[net.music.classical] composer death quiz

robdye@ut-sally.UUCP (Rob Dye) (03/03/85)

Keywords:death pimple occupation

In article <810@decwrl.UUCP> kinmonth@null.DEC writes:
>Here is a trivia quiz about composers dying in strange ways.

	Well, I can answer two of these questions.

>2. What composer, while living in an occupied country, was shot to death
>   by a sentry of the occupying forces as he stepped outside one evening
>   to smoke a cigarette? Of what nationality was the sentry?

	Anton Webern. Shot by an American soldier.

>5. What composer died when he got blood poisening from an infected pimple
>   on his upper lip?

	Alban Berg.