Professional paper
Anxieties and Depression Disorders in Composers’
Tomislav Breitenfeld
; Croatian Physicians´ Music Society, C.M.A., Zagreb, Croatia
Darko Breitenfeld
; Croatian Physicians´ Music Society, C.M.A., Zagreb, Croatia
Mislav Pap
; Croatian Physicians´ Music Society, C.M.A., Zagreb, Croatia
Križo Katinić
; University Department of Psychiatry, Sestre Milosrdnice
Ivica Kostelić
; Croatian Physicians´ Music Society, C.M.A., Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Rešetar
; Croatian Physicians´ Music Society, C.M.A., Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper, we presented an overview of composers diseases in the last five hundred years. The collected data were obtained from the biographies of more than ten thousand composers and over a
thousand pathographies. It is the world’s largest processed sample so far. The diseases mentioned and their comorbidities had an impact on lives and work of composers (87). They have shortened their life span from just over sixty years average to approximately fifty years.
Keywords
composers´ diseases; anxieties; depressions
Hrčak ID:
151667
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2015.
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