Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!ut-sally!robdye From: robdye@ut-sally.UUCP (Rob Dye) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: composer death quiz Message-ID: <1204@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 02:27:08 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1204 Posted: Sun Mar 3 02:27:08 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:25:15 EST References: <810@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: robdye@ut-sally.UUCP (Rob Dye) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 15 Summary: 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.