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From: robdye@ut-sally.UUCP (Rob Dye)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: composer death quiz
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 02:27:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  3 02:27:08 1985
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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.