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    A certain composer committed suicide by drowning himself after his wife left him for another composer. Who were these two composers?

    Question #97004. Asked by JCSon. (Jun 26 08 2:42 PM)


    JCSon

    		"After Dussek left St. Petersburg, he took a position as music director for Prince Radziwill in Lithuania for a year, after which he toured Germany in the mid 1780s as a virtuoso performer on the piano and on the glass harmonica. Later he went to France where he became a favourite of Marie Antoinette, who tried to dissuade him from taking a performing tour to Milan in 1788. On the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, Dussek fled France for England, going to London. Continuing his romantic exploits, he took with him the harpist wife of the composer Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz, who drowned himself into the Seine as a consequence."

    Sources:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Ladislaus_Dussek
    http://cmlounge.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/johann-dussek/

    Jun 26 08, 5:25 PM

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