Last Words and Cause of Death of Famous Composers

Video format inspired from the KZbin channel, Fire of Learning
Tracklist:
0:00 Viderunt Omnes
0:54 King Henry VIII: Pastime With Good Company
2:02 Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide Overture
3:36 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
Disclaimer: This list may not contain all of the composers. The information may also be misleading or not recorded at all, therefore with some of the causes of death being regarded as "unknown".

[@unoriginal422]

UPDATE: After reading some of the comments, I can finally say that I will be making a part two or sequel to this video. However, I will not be choosing the composers myself. Everyone seeing this video will give submissions of composers for me to include in the next video. All of the submissions will be done in a google form. I will be reading the responses and make the whole video with your submissions. Please provide honest and reliable sources for what you are going to be submitting, because some of the last words in online sources may be misleading. Submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKo79-ewVO-kneoCeNpfQvvDUGO22LclpPLwVfiYYJDxlXzg/viewform?usp=sf_link Discord Server: discord.gg/dZAymWZBDK My newest video explaining everything: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epPId5aortmbgas

[@tttenebre]

ravels last words being 'and i still had so much music in my head' destroyed me

[@elyseenger-fq8ye]

It is a well-known theory that Ravel had primary progressive aphasia and his final piece, Bolero was made around the time he begun showing symptoms of the disorder.

[@De_mitaSiburian-uw7xs]

🎉

[@myeggyweggy]

:(

[@l.rongardner2150]

Liberace's last words: "I spent my life composing; now I will spend my death decomposing."

[@RentalSprayer]

Damn that sad

[@theoryjoe1451]

Of course John Cage didn't say anything.

[@naelmonteleone7937]

Damn I was waiting for this comment 🤣

[@unoriginal422]

Cage played 4'33" in his deathbed 🤣🤣🤣

[@goonyougoodthing]

I came into the comments looking for this knowing it would be here

[@Karen-nh4su]

Can someone explain to me the joke? I'd like to understand it :)

[@theoryjoe1451]

@@Karen-nh4su John Cage wrote a piece that consists only of 4 mins and 33 seconds of silence, called 4'33". He also said "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."

[@Tempusverum]

Salieri’s last words: “Mozart! Mozart!” Mahler’s last words: “Mozart!” Must be greeting them at the door of heaven with his infamous laugh

[@rocketqueen9887]

Loool

[@angelicart.6]

BRO I’M CHOKING THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT IN THE COMMENT SECTION SO FAR 💀💀💀💀💀😭

[@helenagertrudeklava7613]

Thats what i was thinking.

[@nikajinpusno9563]

But it wasn't Mozart laughing.... IT WAS GOD!

[@pauldavies5611]

The real Mozart didn’t laugh like that. What’s wrong with you?

[@Aleksandr_Skrjabin]

Poor Rachmaninov. :( With his incredible hands.

[@duqueadriano0081]

probably had them shaking after so many years bashing explosive sounds

[@unoriginal422]

@@duqueadriano0081 Or that his hands spanned a literal 12th

[@ecksdee9768]

@@unoriginal422 yeah

[@salmonidae3667]

Yo scriabin just wanted to ask when are you dropping a new album? I understand that you have been dead for a while, but you can't make your fans wait like that, dude.

[@NanaKwame96]

Ravel's words was like a thorn in my heart. :(

[@theyluvtwoset.13]

same

[@jakubignasiak8818]

The last words of Chopin were "I am already at the source of happiness"

[@zelop9632]

It was actually "my mother, my poor mother"

[@jakubignasiak8818]

@@zelop9632 There are different sources. Chopin's last words, spoken on October 17, 1849, to Fr. Feliński, who administered the sacrament to him: "Without You, my dear, I would have died like a pig [...] I am already at the source of happiness".

[@zelop9632]

@@jakubignasiak8818 thanks I didn't know this

[@activelow9297]

Fred was an interesting guy.

[@tommyreeves4434]

Chopins confirmed last words were "no more" when asked if he was suffering as confirmed by Solange, George Sands daughter, who was with Chopin as he passed

[@AllComposersbyNumbers]

According to witnesses, Joseph Haydn's last words were: "Children be comforted. I am well". There has been much controversy as to what Haydn meant by this statement. The most probable explanation refers to his nickname. Haydn was known throughout the world of musicians as "Papa Haydn", and so comforted his children.

[@anthonymorris2276]

Except that Papa Haydn had no children (at least not legitimate children).

[@AllComposersbyNumbers]

@@anthonymorris2276 He openly regarded his contemporaries, most famously Mozart, as his "children". He was an extremely generous and warm-hearted man and a fantastic musician and composers, and is, in my opinion, very underrated.

[@grtorrest]

Unknown seems to be quite common a very lethal.

[@u.v.s.5583]

Faceless men were very fearsome assassins. Massacred many of them composers.

[@Ace-dv5ce]

@@u.v.s.5583 Why

[@t.wcharles2171]

It's said to have ripped through many a medieval composer

[@emerialon5612]

Oh yes. Unknown. The most feared assassin of all time.

[@FaranAiki]

No, dummy, "unknown" means that we do not know if the composer is really dead. Maybe they are immortal, but who knows.

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart9606]

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth

[@ambrevigneron5911]

Time to dinner with the Commandatore

[@molacarthy9173]

Oh my god, Mozart, you're alive!

[@Max-qd3rb]

skill issue

[@Alisonsgachaverse]

WOLFY

[@theyluvtwoset.13]

Hi Wolfie, when are you going to finish that requiem? 😂

[@erics3317]

Schubert's official cause of death was listed as typhoid, but I believe it is generally accepted by historians that it was actually syphilis. Beethoven's and Mozart's given causes of death are only speculator (as well as quite a few more listed here as well I'm sure, but those I know for sure are not known with any level of certainty). And Bach's cause of death was cut off in the video. He died due to an infection caused by unsuccessful cataract surgery. I think the last part of Bach's cause of death showed up on Handel's entry, which was next in the sequence, because Handel's cause of death was listed as just "cataracts".

[@mockingbird3099]

They've noted lung cancer as causing Rachmaninoff's death, but I'd read elsewhere it was melanoma.

[@codonauta]

Schubert had shyphilis, really, but this didn’t kill him, his shyphilis was not in advanced stage as Schumann had, for example. Schubert died because of typhoid. Beethoven was the first great composer who the had an autopsy, all findings were of cirrhosis of the liver.

[@Frankpizzaa]

Agree, Handel famously died of a stroke

[@stephaniekrebs8416]

I will promise to give you all ☮️&💟

[@kairon5249]

and chopin likely died due to a genetic condition called cystic fibrosis, rather than tuberculosis

[@firstnamelastname6071]

Idk but Dvorak's last words hit Edit: damn poor Rachmaninoff :(

[@timbauer1618]

Yeah

[@sophiegarcia5]

I'm a little biased I guess cause he's my favourite composer but his words hit me hard too. I can visualise the minutes before his death in my head

[@unoriginal422]

For anyone wondering about the cause of death of George Frederic Handel, that was actually a mistake I put. Just to give some context: In 1750, on a journey back from Germany to London, Handel was injured in a carriage accident in the Netherlands. He was wounded in one of his eyes. In 1751, one of Handel's eyes started to fail. This lead to a cataract, obviously. It was later operated on by the famous charlatan (a fraudster) Chevalier Taylor, who claimed to be an oculist. The surgery did not improve his eyesight, and made it worse. By 1752, Handel was completely blind. He had to endure three more operations by Taylor (who also had a history in mistreating the cataract of Johann Sebastian Bach). Handel kept attending performances. He died in 1759 after suffering a collapse during a performance of his famous oratorio "Messiah". The cause of the collapse is unknown.

[@monsieur4744]

1st comment

[@H-Channels]

@@monsieur4744 after 7 years i finally found the one who asked

[@firkejdjneii28283]

what do you mean by "the cause of his death is unknown"? I thought it was obvious why he collapsed

[@trinitykopzosworld6158]

6:55

[@codonauta]

Webern had a very unusual death, in Allied-occupied Vienna in World War II he went outside for a smoke in the evening. A soldier saw the flame, thought it was a firearm and shot, killing him.

[@pauldavies5611]

I think it was an American GI who shot him. 10 years later, to the day, this same soldier committed suicide.

[@isabelgonzalezserrano1229]

@@pauldavies5611 god!

[@SilverChak]

If is true Ravel's last words, is so sad :( , he's my favorite composer.

[@johannesbrahms4930]

No one: Composers who died of old age: No one:

[@DreamArkhos]

@ツᴘʀɪɴᴄxss_ʜᴀᴡᴋᴍᴏᴏɴ_xdツ me too

[@animalistiktiero3835]

So far as i know Franz Joseph Haydn died of old age. I just don't know why Atherosclerosis or congestive heart failure stays n this video.

[@pianosbloxworld4460]

Haydn did. You can perhaps say Bach when compared to the average life expectancy, same with Beethoven. Hildergard von Bingen too. But the rest? Yeah they died young. What is it with great composers who died young? *i’m looking at you, mozart

[@RiceStranger]

Salieri lived 75 years

[@utvpoop]

François Joseph Gossec lived 95 years (1734-1829 which is more suprising as it was still the age of many illnesses, so he was 2 years younger than Haydn and outlived Beethoven by almost 2 years). Leo Ornstein lived 108 years (1893-2002 so he lived in 3 centuries).

[@LoGStein]

I've never liked the random assignment of nationalities to historical figures based on where their place of birth is nowadays. Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was not part of Austria at that point and he called himself a German. How is he Austrian? By this logic, Kant was a Russian, just because Königsberg is part of Russia nowadays. I think we should just stop trying to assign nationalities to people who lived this long ago, just state where they were born, but not try to equate that to modern nationalities.

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

With your logic Chopin is German Edit: Sorry, he was already born in the Duchy of Warsaw, but Wieniawski would be Russian for example

[@LoGStein]

@@rafexrafexowski4754 Have you even read my comment? I said that we should stop trying to assign nationalities. How does that "logic" imply that Chopin is German?

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

@@LoGStein I was wrong about it, but he would be German if he was born 4 years earlier (you said that we should say what country the person was born in, and Żelazowa Wola was a part of Prussia 4 years before Chopin's birth, it would also be really impractical to say he was born in the Duchy of Warsaw, because it was not actually Poland, just a proto-Poland that Napoleon Bonaparte allowed to create to thank the Poles for fighting on his side)

[@LoGStein]

@@rafexrafexowski4754 "(you said that we should say what country the person was born in)" Yes, but not as a Nationality. Even the concept of a "country" wasn't so clearly defined back then e.g. Bohemia was its own kingdom for a long time, but de facto, it was just part of the Austrian Habsburg's realm.

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

@@LoGStein Then was Mozart born in Saltzburg or the Holy Roman Empire? Because technically Saltzburg wasn't a country

[@speedyanimatez7276]

another really good composer was Scott Joplin. He pretty much invented Ragtime music for piano and was labeled the King of Ragtime. That guy is my idol.

[@mixla3493]

God should be your idol my brother 😄

[@speedyanimatez7276]

@@mixla3493 Him too

[@miguelfernandez5583]

​@@mixla3493 which god

[@mixla3493]

@@miguelfernandez5583 The one and only God. The Holy Trinity

[@isaiahdean424]

@@miguelfernandez5583 The one and only God. Allah

[@historianjapanese1042]

you forgot salieri,bizet,offenbach,brahms,grieg,gershwin, and khachaturyan!

[@historianjapanese1042]

and also forgot Japanese composer Rentaro Taki. 🇯🇵

[@UlyssesSGrant-de9pn]

Mussorgsky, Elgar, Mahler, Benjamin Britten, Rameau

[@pacohuachimingobodoque5936]

@@UlyssesSGrant-de9pn Faure, Thalberg, Albeniz, Manuel Ponce, Saint Saens, Granados and de falla. And Mahler is in the video.

[@ricardochihuyfbi2550]

Johan strauss 2 ,Mussorsky,Rimsky-korsakov,Prokofiev,Puccini and more

[@Shelbournefcfan126]

@@ricardochihuyfbi2550 francisco tarrega too

[@MiScusi69]

3:43 Beethoven said that because a friend had just gotten to his house with bottles of wine; but it was to late for the Master Musician...

[@kooldogkid149]

I’m shocked at how many views this got. Great work my man, love history and music

[@LucyandIsla4life]

Same!!

[@olliemartinelli4034]

Jesus Rachmaninoff was just eternally depressed I swear. Saw his hands as a curse

[@allenjenkins7947]

I find it interesting how old some of the earlier composers looked in their portraits, considering that a lot of them died in their 40s or 50s. They probably were old men by the standards of their times.

[@DerPinguim]

Not really. As long as you survived infancy it wouldn't be rare to reach 60-70 perhaps 80 years of age. The main problem was that most children died before reaching 5

[@LucyandIsla4life]

rest in piece all you great composers!

[@kubikim]

"Piece" I see what you did there.

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great presentation....love the music!

[@coachman1532]

It was interesting to see all these medieval composers

[@joeyplays5078xx]

Trust me there were ancient ones.

[@coachman1532]

@@joeyplays5078xx no shit

[@rukminikrishna1938]

Mozart said “I am sure that I’m writing this requiem for myself

[@mene6465]

No, I think it was “The taste of death is upon my lips...I feel something, that is not of this earth”

[@u.v.s.5583]

Mozart said, Antonio, damn it, stop beating me with this violin! You will kill me!

[@no-vj7fi]

@@mene6465 r/woooosh

[@shanikamensah7288]

@@u.v.s.5583 💀💀💀

[@angelicart.6]

@@no-vj7fi 🤡💀

[@voltablitz]

Nice!!! One with more compousers like Alkan wouldn't be bad

[@commander_idi2146]

rest and piece to all the composers.

[@ilplolthereturn7525]

💀😭

[@nearlyaverage9694]

Cause of death: 9th symphony

[@codonauta]

There are a lot of fake causes of death here. Beethoven possibly had lead intoxication, but he died of liver cirrhosis, since he was an alcooholic. Handel didn’t die while a Messiah concerto, he died at home, the concert of his Messiah happened 8 days before and he didn’t have 3 eye surgeries, but just one. Probably he had cataract in both eyes, which is common in old age, and, important: cataract doesn’t kill anyone, probably he had a stroke or a heart attack. The accident that Handel suffered in 1750 didn't actually hit his eye, the cataract appeared later in both eyes regardless of that. Paganini was destroyed by mercury intoxication which was used to treat a disease in his larynx, caused by tuberculosis or syphilis. Saying Mozart died from mercury intoxication just work for romantic and imaginative movies like Amadeus. Schumann had neurological failure, he couldn’t control his movements, advanced shyphilis probably was the cause, but it is not impossible he had pneumonia after that.

[@linkfiedproductions2246]

Everybody: something about death Chopin: *cut me open now*

[@MystyToLilac]

Chopin:c u t m e o p e n n o w . me: boy, that escalated quickly

[@manny75586]

I always found it odd that people categorize Handel as British despite being idiomatically German. But Stravinksy and Rachmaninoff are both just called Russian, despite being US citizens for nearly 40 years at the end of their life and being more idiomatically American in the end. Especially amusing considering Rachmaninoff's utter contempt for what Russia had become post-1917 and his famy telling the Soviets to get bent when they tried to demand he be exhumed and interred in Russia.

[@namenlos2578]

your comment on Haendel is correct. Similar comment should be done on Giovanni Battista Lulli (here named JP Lully). He was born In Italy and moved to France at young age. Why, in contrast to Haendel and Lulli, is Chopin considered (correctly) Polish, considering that he lived and produced almost the totality of his music in France?

[@violinhunter2]

...a good topic for discussion. If my great great grandparents and my great grandparents and grandparents and parents are Swedish but i became a citizen of Peru in 1989, am I Peruvian or Swedish? My wife is Swedish too and so our two kids are Swedish, despite having been born in Peru.

[@namenlos2578]

@@violinhunter2 Thank you. No doubts, I have been misunderstood. The issue is not about the nationality of people like you or like Lulli or Haendel. The issue is "why the same criteria are not applied to all"? For instance, why a sicilian mafia man, whose great grandparents were born in USA is considered italian, while a Nobel Prize laureate who was born, studied and worked in Italy then moved to USA is considered a USA citizen? I hope I have been more clear now with this example.

[@angelicart.6]

@@namenlos2578 your point is actually not that fallacious (as I said in my previous comment under an other thread), tho you’ve got to consider how the person considered or considers him or herself. I’m Italian, born and lived in Italy for 16 years (I’m almost 16), studied and all in Italy, and I still live here, but I crave the desire to move to Germany as soon as possible and start my career as an Opera singer. I’d still consider my self Italian, but I would have become a German citizen, with a German citizenship, a German husband and German/Italian kids, and still having a Italian citizenship. And actually, if I remember correctly, Händel (even after moving to UK) considered himself as German, Lully didn’t considered himself as an Italian, and fought against the spreading of Italian music his whole life (I would hate, as an Italian, to consider him Italian.. since he was against his motherland the whole time)

[@angelicart.6]

@@namenlos2578 also, can I ask you where are you from?

[@alicagangunduz8488]

Schubert's last words almost made me cry, maybe because he is my favorite. Fun fact: Beethoven's words were just for wine that he wanted to drink

[@regenfrau7823]

Thank you 💜💜💜🇦🇹

[@Anonymous_Identity246]

I thought that Betoven’s last words were I wish I can hear in heaven.

[@PatrickLedwig]

@@Anonymous_Identity246 The most commonly agreed version though is "plaudite amici comoedia finita est."

[@jackieloosley0721]

schubert is my favorite to

[@ericb252]

Love how they play Lully through, bach, mozart, Hayden.. haha great stuff always love hearing Lully

[@SlyHikari03]

Paganini and Vivaldi are violin legends. They have the coolest violin pieces imo.

[@TheSupahBish]

Vivaldi is cemented into every violin learner's répertoire. His A minor was the first piece in which everyone I know started practicing shifts.

[@marendenison3550]

Wow Mozart was so hardcore it took tuberculosis, mercury poisoning, syphilis, AND rheumatic fever just to kill the guy.

[@BurningSky9]

He likely died of one of these diseases, not all of them. The '/' sign between them clearly indicates that.

[@joaco_x]

that unknown thing is very lethal

[@Snowcappedsnow]

0:00 Thanks for adding me!

[@michaeltroster9059]

Beethoven did not die of lead poisoning. He had Crohn’s disease and died of complications thereof. As well, Handel did not die of cataract.

[@codonauta]

Beethoven died of cirrhosis of the liver, the authopsy showed that.

[@videolegal180]

Like he died of deaf? Bcs he became deaf in 1850s

[@Rainbowcookie03]

@@videolegal180you cant die of deafness

[@joeyplays5078]

Gustav Holst was a really good composer what’s mostly interesting about his music is that he made like planets songs like mars and Jupiter.

[@codonauta]

There is an usual confusion between dying because this or that versus dying with this or that. Handel had cataract but didn’t die because that, died with that. Schubert had syphilis but died because typhoid.

[@ciicadadayss]

poor beethoven :(

[@unoriginal422]

His last words were spoken after uis publisher gave him wine :(

[@ianjeronimo1394]

@@unoriginal422 I died drunk, better than all of you, LONG LIVE BEETHOVEN AND ROMANCE

[@Freun]

@@unoriginal422 Beethoven : PITTY PITTY TO LATE! Friend :*gives wine* Beethoven : *drinks* Beethoven again : *dies in lead poisoning* Friend : YOU FOOL.

[@unoriginal422]

@@Freun I think that's not how it happened. LVB was told of a gift of twelve wine bottles from his friend (or his publisher), and Beethoven, who was already suffering from alcoholism, replied "Pity pity, too late!". However, many people had different beliefs on what were Beethoven's last words.

[@Freun]

@@unoriginal422it's a *j* oke

[@johnchessant3012]

The death of Beethoven, as told on wikipedia: During this period, Beethoven was almost completely bedridden despite occasional efforts to rouse himself. On 24 March, he said to Schindler and the others present, "plaudite, amici, comoedia finita est" ("applaud, friends, the comedy is over"). Later that day, when a case of expensive wine from Schott arrived, he whispered, "Pity - too late". Beethoven died on 26 March 1827 at the age of 56; only his friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner and a "Frau van Beethoven" (possibly his old enemy Johanna van Beethoven) were present. According to Hüttenbrenner, at about 5 p.m. there was a flash of lightning and a clap of thunder: "Beethoven opened his eyes, lifted his right hand, and looked up for several seconds with his fist clenched ... not another breath, not a heartbeat more."

[@johnchessant3012]

"At this startling, awful peal of thunder, the dying man suddenly raised his head from Hüttenbrenner's arm, stretched out his own right arm majestically - like a general giving orders to an army. This was but for an instant; the arm sunk back; he fell back; Beethoven was dead." - from the first biography of Beethoven, written by Alexander W. Thayer

[@paulgeidel4195]

I've always heard that Monteverdi's birth year was 1567, not 1597. He lived a long life, like Byrd and Tallis on your list (and Schuetz (can't do umlaut here)1585-1672, not on your list.) I had heard that Schubert died of syphilis, and Rossini also of a VD. Nice collection, though. Thumbs up, for sure.

[@anthonymorris2276]

Rossini looks old in his pictures, but his 56th birthday occurred just 2 months ago. (He was born on 29 February. So, like the hapless pirate apprentice Frederick in Pirates of Penzance, he only gets a birthday every 4th year.)

[@shealinbanta4169]

Was William IX, Duke of Aquitaine the first composer?

[@unoriginal422]

I just chose composers from the Medieval to Modern eras. The earlier ones don't have a lot of info on their deaths, so I chose later composers to make it more interesting.

[@shealinbanta4169]

@@unoriginal422 okay then

[@rukminikrishna1938]

Did King Henry VIII really write Pastime with Good Company

[@unoriginal422]

Yes, he wrote it when he was about 18 years old.

[@myeggyweggy]

Some of these last words just broke my heart....

[@alikechiche9947]

Bernstein : « Please don’t take me where Gould is »

[@theyluvtwoset.13]

Ravel's lines literally made me tear up, and then Rachmaninoff's lines actually killed me of laughing

[@u.v.s.5583]

Guga Mahler. Cause of death: Somebody played the Sixth with three hammer blows.

[@deftcoleman0552]

Ravel’s final words broke my heart. :(

[@GarlicMuffin]

The thumbnail: Wofranz Joseph Hayosart, ah yes my favorite

[@elemusic19]

Beethoven's birthday was on December 17th, 2 days before mine.

[@myklkay]

Mozart was German : Salzbourg was bind to Austria after his death. Before, it was part of the German Empire. He considered himself as German in all his letters.

[@anthonymorris2276]

There was NO “German Empire” when Mozart was around. He was born a citizen of the sovereign state of Salzburg, an absolute monarchy, ruled over by the Prince-Archbishop. (In Mozart’s time it was a man called Colorado, who also gave his name to a US state.) When Mozart labelled himself “German”, he was referring to language and cultural identity, which was then the same for Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse, Salzburg and Austria, but perhaps not Prussia.

[@myklkay]

​@@anthonymorris2276"From the 1680s to 1789, Germany comprised many small territories which were parts of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation". The words were not in the right order.....don't change the fact he was German.

[@anthonymorris2276]

@@myklkay As has been said, the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not an empire. And Germany was not a country until 1871.

[@myklkay]

​@@anthonymorris2276"The Holy Roman Empire,[e] also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.[19] It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost 1,000 years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars." It was led by an Emperor but it was not an Empire. Those historians are really goofy people....

[@u.v.s.5583]

Franz List. Cause of death: Pneumonia. Last words: Cough, cough!

[@Itibitydetsku]

Actually Liszt's last words was "Tristan".

[@danielcalero3929]

Beethoven, incorrect..."Comedy is over". "Pity, pityd, too late." He said that because of the late arrival of the Rhine wine bottles. Hours later, or, the next day he died.

[@nintendianajones64]

When asked by a priest if he was a catholic or a protestant John Field said as his last words "I am a pianist." Bad ass

[@simonho413]

What version of viderunt omnes

[@joshuas.986]

Ravel probably had the most tragic illness and demise.

[@content4115]

Please anyone tell me where this version of "viderunt omnes" is from

[@siajnesdunk]

If Händel really died from cataract, he will probably have been the only one in history 😅

[@anthonymorris2276]

Hmmm. Maybe it wasn’t a cataract of they eye. Possibly he drowned in a large waterfall.

[@bigg2988]

I read in one of the biographies that Liszt's last word(s) - since none were included here - supposedly was "Tristan". Already sick, he was persuaded by his daughter Cosima to be present at a Bayreuth performance of "Tristan and Isolde". It was probably good PR, as Liszt was showered with ovation, but the old man returned that evening in fever, and as his condition worsened, soon was delirious. The last words he muttered thus were connected to the last thing that made impression on him. To continue down the line: I wonder what the source is for Dvorak being taken by influenza. I vividly remember a story retold from his family members, of him supposedly getting red in the face suddenly, saying those last words, trying to pick himself up and collapsing; the source I knew was quite positive about stroke being the culprit. (Possibly his bout with illness - since the composer was not feeling well for a couple of weeks - facilitating the fatal outcome.)

[@Itibitydetsku]

You're right

[@poggerslegend1887]

Congrats to Thomas, lives 80 years good goin

[@Helloworld-xu2ui]

Sibelius lived a very long life

[@Captain_FixIt]

4:16 The cause of death of Felix Mendelssohn was Multiple Strokes, not a Stroke.

[@galenbrubaker5603]

The Machaut Messe des Nostre Dame slaps

[@cotococotoquense9375]

first words of all of them: unhe unhee

[@maya-strawberrii]

“Mozart! Mozart!” From Mahler: I’m crying

[@tbarrelier]

How could you leave out Brahms?

[@b.deville3236]

I've read that Dizzy Gillespie's last words were , "You mean...you people thought I was SERIOUS?!?".

[@robertwalker2052]

Not seein them last words, professor.

[@eesr]

its like on the pictures at the bottom, only for some of them

[@thekathal]

Should've included Jean Alain, he was killed after shooting 16 german soldiers in ww2

[@johanlokau9455]

Why did you use the flag of the HRE initially, and then switch it to the black red and gold flag well before the HRE had ended..?

[@Nozel_Silva36]

That Alban Berg it so Perfect Composer Austria

[@angelicart.6]

Wtf?

[@wawashake2763]

I scrolled up after looking at comments, saw handel, and thought "guy in a war tent" (a specific drawing of the guy with an oval head aka handel was in a tent and I just thought war and tent, so therefore I call him guy in a war tent) had to add on, guys, remember seeing william ix on the wooden slab with alley guys using intruments and william singing extremely intrestingly??????? so nostalgic

[@stephaniekrebs8416]

😥😢🤧

[@agucci]

The last words are strong. The words of the Law.

[@willytv3067]

This is like their senior quotes

[@pauldavies5611]

I believe Bach’s birthday is March 21.

[@thatreddinosaurguy]

Btw, you missed Rymsky-Korsakov

[@anthonymorris2276]

How could anyone miss ripsky corsets off.

[@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an]

Guy who got shot's final words: What are you gonna do, shoot me?

[@DeezersTV]

Beethoven died because he only drank riverwater until his water contained lead

[@firstnamelastname6071]

Ngl medieval music sounds hella creepy

[@angelicart.6]

What? Medieval music is a gigantic bop. All the medieval pieces I’ve ever listened to are so fire that the witches burned. $h1ttÿ jokes apart they are pretty sick for me

[@DmitriShostakovichDSCH]

It’s not entirely true that i died just of a heart ailment, people aren’t entirely sure but it’s probably some combination of heart disease, ALS, liver disease and lung cancer :)

[@shealinbanta4169]

Guillaume de Machaut survived the Black Death

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

their last words were too softly gasped to be even heard, let alone recorded.

[@angelicart.6]

So they all died without breathing…interesting

[@iwatchtoomuchtwoset]

ok just realized that john cage died the same year that brett yang was born. and he was even alive for a few month after he was born

[@classicalmusic1175]

No Brahms? I'll add him then Born: 7 May, 1833 Period: Romanticism Died: 3 April, 1897 Cause of death: Neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer with liver metastasis Last words: "Ah that tastes nice, thank you."

[@ralfheredia2199]

No holst?

[@unoriginal422]

Oh yeah, forgot abt him

[@rodneymize9116]

How does one die from a cataract??

[@jannis11]

Naice

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa9718]

Scriabin: Oh , a pimple, nothing wrong with just popping it. Right? Right??

[@paulinepeters6443]

John Cage had no last words he was more silent than 4'33.

[@simpleart5620]

cool

[@billseymour-jones3224]

What is the point of placing on the composers' pictures flags of countries which did not exist during their life-time?

[@ariannagorbet2239]

Most of the composters in this video is either from Italy, France or Germany

[@leonidas3549]

Verdi's last words: one more button, one less button.

[@Idantheguy]

0:18 i thought she was hildegard von blingin’ xD

[@angelicart.6]

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