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1. Henry Purcell's wife got so tired of him staying out late at night that one evening she instructed their servant to lock him out. The consequence was that:
2. Mahler was so worried he would die, like so many composers, whilst writing his ninth symphony, that he decided to call the work a 'song cycle' instead. Which of these was it?
3. How did Enrique Granados die in 1916?
4. True or false, Lully died after stabbing himself in the foot with a conductor's baton?
5. Tchaikovsky committed suicide after a letter containing what piece of information was sent to the Tsar?
6. Robert Schumann went mad towards the end of his life. How did he once try to commit suicide?
7. In popular myth, which rival composer is thought to have killed Mozart?
8. How was the composer Alkan supposed to have died?
9. Chastelain de Coucy, a troubadour, died whilst on a pilgrimage to Palestine. He had his heart sent back to the woman he had had an affair with; what happened then?
10. True or false: Anton von Webern died having been shot by a German soldier just after the end of World War II.
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