Whether they be fact or fiction, let's find out which stories regarding classical music, composers, etc... are the most intriguing. But this time around, let us try a new approach to the Top Ten poll. This poll will be in two stages.
Stage 1
Compile a public list of nominees. At the end of this post I will start the list of legends. Feel free to add to that list. When we reach either 50 nominees or next Monday (whichever comes first), we will start Stage 2.
Stage 2
If you haven't figured it out, Stage 2 is what we always do, the list submission process.
From the public list that we compile, choose your favorite 10, list them in order of preference, and submit that list to me no later than the deadline I will give when I announce the list submission process has opened (i.e. do not submit lists to me until we are in Stage 2).
So here we go... potential nominees for this topic I think of are (in no particular order):
-The theft of Haydn's head from his grave
-Beethoven's Immortal Beloved
-Salieri killed Mozart
-Berlioz' pursuit of Harriet Smithson
-Beethoven continued to conduct after the 9th had finished
-the Tchaikovsky/von Meck relationship
-Mozart had his family sing his "Lacrimosa" with him while on his deathbed
-Wagner and Cosima Liszt's affair
-Jean-Baptiste Lully died from complications of an self-inflicted injury sustained while conducting
-Beethoven's removal of Napoleon's dedication on his 3rd symphony.
-Scriabin (period
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-Tchaikovsky so feared that his head would fall off that he conducted with only one hand (using the other to keep his head 'secure')
-Beethoven wrote a 10th symphony.
Okay, that's 13 so far (all I can think of at the moment)... now, lets see what everyone else can add to this list. And try not to indicate which you think is the most intriguing...
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