Posted by baseball55 on November 25, 2013, at 18:40:10
In reply to Re: 'mozart effect' » baseball55, posted by sigismund on November 24, 2013, at 22:39:58
> What were the ages of their deaths. Mozart 33? Keats 26? Schubert 31? (That was a guess) Purcell 26? (Another guess)
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> We could learn something from them in their acceptance. (Another guess as to how easily Purcell anyway accepted it.)I think Mozart was 35. I just heard on the radio that Chopin wrote his second piano concerto (in my opinion, one of the best ever written) at the age of 19.
Did Schubert die that young? Didn't know that. I'll look it up. I know Schumann suffered from severe bipolar and spent years of his life in asylums.
Why is it that so many of the very greatest classical composers were German or Austrian? I mean, think about it -- Bach, Mozart, Hayden, Handel, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Mahler -- on and on.
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