Polish composer and pianist, he was the great Romantic poet of the piano. Tuberculosis, aggrevated by his stormy affair with authoress George Sand, lead to his death at a young age. Debussy suffered from cancer during the last ten years of his life, complicated by the harsh living conditions of World War I and financial problems. Russian composer, he was the leading 19th century Russian Romantic composer of symphonies and ballets. He died suddenly, after drinking unboiled water in cholera-infested St.
Most scholars believe it was accidental.
Russian composer was a dynamic innovator in number of different styles, and one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Italian composer of the grandest of grand operas. He was known throughout his life as a fierce nationalist, patriot, and democrat and his early operas frequently ran into censorship problems because of their suspected political implications. Austrian composer and important bridge between Classical and Romantic music, and the first great master of the Romantic 19th-century German art song. So little he was appreciated at his death at 31, that the 500 manuscripts found in his room were valued at the equivalent of just a few dollars by the investigating authorities.