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    Which classical composer lived on a beach, in a cottage, drank "Hell-hole whiskey" and smoked a pipe while working on his opera?

    Question #99486. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Sep 17 08 8:37 AM)


    BRY2K

    		This sounds like the life of George Gershwin whilst working on Porgy and Bess.

    The site below speaks of his cottage life and fondness for "Hell-hole Swamp" corn whisky.

    http://books.google.ca/books?id=wCPPPHM44sIC&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=Hell+hole+swamp+whiskey+Gershwin+cottage&source=web&ots=YoybkPim6Z&sig=7c4hEP7D5h5szjzYa0MmBgFZRyY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

    Sep 17 08, 8:48 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		Though Giacomo Puccini lived a very similar lifestyle in Torre del Lago, on the shores of a large lake in a fishing village. (His lodgings and lifestyle are spoken of in the book "Talks with Great Composers" by Arthur M. Abell.

    Sep 17 08, 9:31 AM

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