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  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147
    #1

    What Killed Chopin?

    The mystery of Chopin's death
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915863
    Chopin's death certificate said he died of tuberculosis, but there have always been doubts - and an examination of his heart this year has failed to put them to rest.
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  • Mary Chambers
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1963
    #2
    The only conclusion seems to be that it was probably TB, as we all thought, but nobody really knows. It doesn't much matter, anyway.

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    • VodkaDilc
      #3
      Originally posted by Mary Chambers View Post
      The only conclusion seems to be that it was probably TB, as we all thought, but nobody really knows. It doesn't much matter, anyway.
      It sounds like Britten and Kildea all over again. In both cases, they wrote their music before they died - and that's all that matters.

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20572
        #4
        Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
        It sounds like Britten and Kildea all over again. In both cases, they wrote their music before they died - and that's all that matters.

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        • Old Grumpy
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 3643
          #5
          Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
          In both cases, they wrote their music before they died
          Bit difficult for them to write it afterwards!

          OG

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          • richardfinegold
            Full Member
            • Sep 2012
            • 7737
            #6
            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
            Bit difficult for them to write it afterwards!

            OG

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            • Flosshilde
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7988
              #7
              Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
              Bit difficult for them to write it afterwards!

              OG
              Wasn't there a medium who claimed to have taken dictation from a number of dead composers?

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163
                #8
                Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                Wasn't there a medium who claimed to have taken dictation from a number of dead composers?
                Yes; Rosemary Brown, who became quite famous for a while. In fact, she became a Large.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Flosshilde
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 7988
                  #9
                  And here she is playing a Ballade Chopin dictated.

                  Chopin - Ballade - Rosemary Brown, a spirit medium was inspired by Chopin
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8goUNFeYM1I
                  Rosemary Brown (27 July 1916 -- 16 November 2001) was a spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. I read Rosemary Brow...

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                  • Roehre
                    #10
                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Yes; Rosemary Brown, who became quite famous for a while. In fact, she became a Large.
                    Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Beethoven all dictated works to her, Beethoven even his 11th symphony (in 2 mvt)

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26572
                      #11
                      Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                      Wasn't there a medium who claimed to have taken dictation from a number of dead composers?
                      *cue: decomposing joke* ...
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • EdgeleyRob
                        Guest
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12180
                        #12
                        Alkan killed Chopin (and Liszt) for me.

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12935
                          #13
                          Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                          Alkan killed Chopin (and Liszt) for me.
                          ... I enjoy Alkan, a lot - but really for me he is (along with Duphly and Lefébure-Wély, whom I also relish... ) one of the best really bad composers.

                          Whereas Chopin is one of the best really good composers...

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                          • gradus
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5622
                            #14
                            Ref Floss's and Cali's message 11 above, 'twas Rosemary Brown.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163
                              #15
                              Originally posted by gradus View Post
                              Ref Floss's and Cali's message 11 above, 'twas Rosemary Brown.
                              Yea! We know - keep up at the back there!
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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