What composer died from a poisoned toe?

Answer 1

Jean-Baptiste Lully

On January 8, 1687, Lully was conducting a Te Deum in honor of Louis XIV's recent recovery from illness. He was beating time by banging a long staff (a precursor to the baton) against the floor, as was the common practice at the time, when he struck his toe, creating an abscess. The wound turned gangrenous, but Lully refused to have his toe amputated and the gangrene spread resulting in his death on the 22nd of March. He left his last opera, Achille & Polyxène, unfinished.
On his death-bed Lully wrote Bisogna morire, peccatore (You must die, sinner.)

Answer 2

Battle with cancer
Bob Marley
Diagnosis
In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a football (soccer) wound on his right big toe. Marley refused amputation, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafarian belief that the body must be "whole":

Rasta no abide amputation. I don't allow a man to be dismantled.
—From the biography Catch a Fire

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Collapse and treatment
The cancer eventually spread to Marley's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. After recently playing two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of his fall 1980 Uprising Tour, he collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park. The remainder of the tour was subsequently cancelled.

Bob Marley played his final concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1980. The live version of "Redemption Song" on Songs of Freedom was recorded at this show.[4] Marley afterwards sought medical help from Munich specialist Josef Issels, but his cancer had already progressed to the terminal stage.

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Death
While flying home from Germany to Jamaica for his final days, Marley became ill, and landed in Miami for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on May 11, 1981. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life" [citation needed],possibly a quotation from the song sung by Carlene Davis ( "If life was a thing that money could buy, the rich would live and the poor would die. Money can't buy life".). According to his Christian mother, Cedella, his final words were 'Jesus, take me', though at his funeral the Rastafarian presence was still eminent. Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari. He was buried in a crypt near his birthplace with his Gibson Les Paul guitar, a soccer ball, a marijuana bud, and a Bible. A month before his death, he was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit. He was given a new Rolls Royce automobile before his death [citation needed].

Answer 3

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Answer 4

Jean-Baptiste Lully
i agree with katz,

Answer 5

Bob Marley had something wrong with his toe. This is the only one I can think of.

Answer 6

Certainly it was Lully if you consider gangrene to be poison :)

Answer 7

SHOE-BERT?