Composer facts?

Question

I need a funny fact about a composer, any composer!

Answer 1

depends on what you find funny.
Mozart wrote dozens of letters to his cousin, all full of bathroom humor, until he was well into his 20s.
Richard Wagner, in his later years, had a thing for purple silk underwear.
Anton Bruckner once offered the musicians who premiered one of his tremendous symphonies a plate of home-made puffed doughnuts ( Krapfen) to take home to their kids instead of payment. He had baked them himself....there were at least 4 dozen....

Answer 2

It might be difficult to find a "funny" fact. Irving Berlin composed all of his songs using the "black keys" on a piano. He knew nothing about music and had to have an associate write down all the work. Steve Allen, who played piano by ear, composed some 800 songs in one sitting as a publicity stunt. He sat in a store window as he accomplished this fete.

Answer 3

On January 8, 1687, French composer Jean-Baptiste 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 et Polyxène, unfinished.

Answer 4

John Cage, a modernist composer (also minimalist) is not only a homosexual but also an expert on mushrooms. Haydn (F.J.) would often laugh so hard his wig would come flying off. Mozart was a drunkard. And Beethoven, though a man, had three periods!

Answer 5

Tchaikovsky and Brahms did no longer like one yet another's music. They first met at a dinner social gathering given via Clara Schumann (Robert Schuman's widow) the place Grieg and his spouse have been additionally travellers. At dinner Brahms and Tchaikovsky have been seated one on the two factor of Grieg's spouse. the ambience between the two composers advance into undesirable and Mrs Grieg (i won't be able to remember her first call ... probably Mina) ultimately got here to her ft and demanded that Clara flow her to a different place on the table via fact she could desire to no longer bear to take a seat down between them a 2nd longer. At that factor one in all the two composers cracked a comedian tale (why do i think of it advance into Brahms?) and the ice advance into broken. the two adult adult males grew to become acquaintances. Years later Brahms surpassed off to be passing however some eu city or different the place Tchaikovsky advance into to habit a overall performance of his newly composed 5th Symphony. Brahms went alongside to the rehearsals and, ultimately, got here upon a paintings via Tchaikovsky of which he authorized. they got here upon that, no longer basically have been they staying in an analogous hotel yet that their rooms have been around the corner to a minimum of one yet another. That night they have been given nicely and actually decrease than the impression of alcohol in each others business organisation. an excellent wee tale I actual have continuously thought.

Answer 6

How about this- Gustav Mahler was so convinved that he would die before finishing his 10th symphony, his good friend Sigmund Freud suggested he not title it "Symphony 10" .. he followed this advice and titled it "Das Lied von der Erde" (the song of the earth). Then he began his 10th Symphony (in reality the 11th). Then, of course, he died.

Answer 7

Here's a ton of it. Victor Borg took classical music anything but seriously.

Answer 8

beethoven- when he conducted his 9th, his assistant tried to stop him from conducting but he wouldn't because he was deaf.