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John G. Deacon asks, regarding his death:
>I read, and recall it quite clearly, that he was in his garage doing
>something to his car with the engine running and for some reason closed the
>main door. Can anyone, please, confirm this and/or the source? I thought
>it was in Grove - it isn't!
I remembered something similar, but after pouring through all my sources
the ones who deigned to mention Ataulfo Argenta at all only say he died
a tragic and premature death (1913-1958). However, I found a website
dedicated to Argenta (somewhere on geocities.com) which looks good, but is
under construction (of course) and the biographical info was not posted
today. I reccomend in a few days you search for "Argenta Ataulfo" and
you'll probably find the page (I forgot to note the address--oops).
On this topic (of strange composer deaths and such), may I reccomend a
book? Its called "The Book of Classical Music Lists" by Herbert Kupferberg,
and published by Penguin. It is so delightful! Any CM fan will love the
little stats, from 'translations of names into English' [Bedrich
Smetana=Fred Sourcream] to 'composers who died insane' [Chabrier,
Donizetti, Salieri, Schumann, Smetana, Wolf]. HIGHLY reccomended and tons
of fun.
Bob K.
Schwann
[The English version of the web site in question can be found at:
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2835/mainE.html
-Dave]
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