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1. Who wrote over 100 symphonies, was once expelled for cutting off another student's hair, taught Beethoven, strongly influenced Wolfgang Mozart, and was often known as 'Papa'?
2. Who is often called 'The Poet of the Piano', was in love with a woman more commonly known as a man, and died of Tuberculosis?
3. Who was nicknamed 'Tubby' and 'Little Mushroom', wrote a piece about an elf at the age of 18, had 'special evenings' with friends, and probably died of syphilis?
4. Who destroyed his fingers using a device supposed to stretch them, married his teacher's daughter only 14 short years after they first became engaged, tried to kill himself by jumping into the Rhine, and believed towards the end of his life that he spoke to the ghosts of Schubert and Mendelssohn and that he was being followed around by tigers and hyenas?
5. Who never knew for sure who his father was, wrote a 22-hour long opera cycle, wrote a play in which 42 characters die, owned (during his life) two poodles named Speck and Dreck and two spaniels named Peps and Fips, married Franz Liszt's daughter just before their third child was born, and believed Canada to be inhabited by 'scores of vegetarian panthers and tigers'?
6. Who was probably having an affair with Schumann's wife, frequented a pub called "The Red Hedgehog", and is famous for his Lullaby?
7. Who was a crybaby when young, had a brother named Modest, was always afraid that his head would fall off during a concert, was supported by a rich old lady, and died soon after it was revealed that he had had a 'fling' with the nephew of a prominent nobleman?
8. Who was known as a musical rebel, hated the term 'impressionism', was obsessed with the colour green, was once arrested for shoplifting a tie, and had a daughter named Chouchou?
9. Who wrote such pieces as 'Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear', 'Genuine Flabby Preludes for a Dog' and 'Dessicated Embryos', spent 8 days in jail for publicly calling a critic a foul name, and once made a movie of a camel pulling a hearse around a mini Eiffel Tower?
10. Who was originally named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, at the age of 7 proposed to Marie Antoinette, probably had Tourette's syndrome, once signed a letter to his father 'Addio, booby looby', and wrote a song called 'Lick my arse'?
11. Who was almost completely self-taught (and it shows!), suffered from triskaidecaphobia (fear of the number 13), was fond of the number 12, invented a technique of speech-singing, and had a riot break out at the first performance of a series of pieces about a drunken, delusional clown?
12. Who was a rampant pedophile, wrote a piece for voice and flatulence, hated Italians (even though he was one), and died after impaling his foot with a cane while conducting?
13. Who was abused by his drunken father, studied with Haydn, was once mistaken for a vagabond and arrested, threw eggs at a waiter, caused his nephew to attempt suicide, nicknamed his sisters-in-law 'The Lump' and 'The Queen of the Night', had syphilis, was only 5'4', temporarily dedicated a piece to Napoleon, and supposedly died during a thunderstorm?
14. Who once called Mozart 'the greatest Italian composer ever', composed all his overtures the night before they were to be performed, had a cat wander onstage during the premiere of his most famous opera, was extremely fond of pasta, and would be disgusted to know that one of his pieces is the theme song for The Lone Ranger?
15. Who had a passion for vodka, wrote a piece for a dog and a canary, is best known for a set of pieces about paintings, worked as a soldier and bureaucrat, and was abandoned by his fiancee when she learned that he had a 'congenital malformation of the sexual organs'?
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