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From: robdye@ut-sally.UUCP (Rob Dye)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: leonardo the performance artist
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 19:15:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 19:15:36 1985
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Summary: Berg wasn't shot by an American MP

In article <849@decwrl.UUCP> janzen@pipa.DEC (Thomas E. J. LMO4/B5 279-5421 ECL Test) writes:
>2.  Alban Berg was shot by American MP's while smoking an after-dinner cigar 
>on his porch.  His brother-in-law, in the black market, had been pursued
>there by the MPs.
>Tom Janzen DEC 150 Locke Marlboro MA 01752

	Not so.  Berg died in 1936 (I believe), long before American occupation
anywhere.  You are thinking of Anton Webern, although I've never heard the bit 
about his brother-in-law.


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		Robert Dye
		Dept. of CS, UTexas at Austin

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