Professional paper
The diseases and destinies of the composers – Celebratory Year 2013 (Gesualdo, Corelli, Gretry, Wagner, Verdi, Britten)
Darko Breitenfeld
; Department of Psychiatry, KBC Sestre milosrdnice
Marina Vuksanović
; Croatian Physicians Music Society, Croatian Medical Association,
Danijel Buljan
; Department of Psychiatry, KBC Sestre milosrdnice
Lana Škrgatić
; Croatian Physicians Music Society, Croatian Medical Association,
Tomislav Breitenfeld
; Department of Neurology, KBC Sestre milosrdnice
Roko Granić
; Croatian Physicians Music Society, Croatian Medical Association,
Abstract
Celebratory years with vast
number of composers are rare. After 1985
(Bach, Haendel, D. Scarlatti) and around
2010 (Haydn, Schumann, Chopin), there
comes the great year of 2013. These composers
are highly sensitive with occasionally
severe mental disturbances and lived
past 60 years on average, in accordance to
the period in which they lived. The composers
we considered worthy of special
mention are Gesualdo, Corelli, Gretry,
Wagner, Verdi and Britten. The composers
mentioned above lived relatively long con-sidering that their siblings (and fellow citizens)
of that era were dying at half their
age. In the earlier centuries the causes of
death were usually infectious diseases-plague
at first followed by tuberculosis (Gretry),
etc.). In later centuries, thanks to better
diagnosis, degenerative diseases were dominant
(Wagner, Verdi, Britten).
Keywords
diseases; composers; Gesualdo; Corelli; Gretry; Wagner; Verdi; Britten
Hrčak ID:
101332
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2012.
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