Pablo Massa wrote:

>What has been, in your opinion, the freakest and weirdest cause of death of
>a composer (major or not so)?

Popular legend has it that CharlesValentin Alkan met his unfortunate end at
age seventy-five when, reaching for a copy of the Talmud on the top shelf,
a large bookcase fell over on him, crushing him to death.

Darrell Acree
Washington, DC