{"id":7682,"date":"2024-02-23T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:25:53","slug":"fun-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/fun-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Facts About Composers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fun-facts-and-tall-tales\">Fun Facts and Tall Tales <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>On a lighter note for this blog post we thought we&#8217;d have a look at some fun facts about composers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composers, the creative minds behind some of the most timeless and enchanting musical pieces, have left an indelible mark on the world of classical and contemporary music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond their musical genius, these composers often led fascinating lives filled with quirks, eccentricities, and unexpected anecdotes.  From Beethoven&#8217;s habit of pouring cold water over his hands before composing to Tchaikovsky&#8217;s affinity for conducting with a ruler, these tidbits offer a delightful glimpse into the human side of the maestros who shaped the soundscape of different eras and genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read some of our fun facts about composers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-schumann\">Schumann<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/left-hand-stretching-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/left-hand-stretching-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/left-hand-stretching-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/left-hand-stretching.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/schumann\/\">Schumann<\/a> would frequently push his hands into the entrails of a slaughtered animal to heal his ailments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also invented a device to stretch his little finger so he could be a better pianist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly it ruined his finger and his piano playing career!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mussorgsky\">Mussorgsky<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hen-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hen-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hen-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hen.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A chicken once fell off the stage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydneyoperahouse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sydney Opera House<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was during a performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/mussorgsky\/\">Mussorgsky&#8217;s<\/a> Boris Godunov.  It fell into the orchestra pit and onto a cellist&#8217;s lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-di-lasso\">di Lasso<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Orlando-di-Lasso-150x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Orlando-di-Lasso-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Orlando-di-Lasso-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Orlando-di-Lasso.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orlando_di_Lasso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Orlando<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orlando_di_Lasso\"> di Lasso<\/a> was a Renaissance composer and child chorister with a beautiful voice.  Different choirs kidnapped Orlando three times during his boyhood because they wanted him in their group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-liszt\">Liszt<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dog-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dog-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dog.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Female admirers would often write to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/liszt\/\">Franz Liszt<\/a> asking for locks of his hair.  He received so many requests that he bought a dog and sent fur clippings to his admirers instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bach\">Bach<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/baby-feet-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/baby-feet-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/baby-feet-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/baby-feet.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/bach\/\">J S Bach<\/a> fathered twenty children with his two wives. Sadly only ten survived to adulthood, though four became successful composers in their own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-beethoven\">Beethoven<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/coffee-beans-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/coffee-beans-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/coffee-beans-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/coffee-beans.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/beethoven\/\">Beethoven<\/a> loved coffee.  He used to count out precisely 60 beans to be ground per cup!  His Beethoven\u2019s last words were, \u201cPity, pity \u2013 too late.\u201d  upon seeing a case of wine that he&#8217;d just received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/graveyard-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/graveyard-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/graveyard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/graveyard.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-chopin\">Chopin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/chopin\/\">Chopin<\/a> had a fear of being buried alive.  When planning his funeral he instructed his physician to remove his heart after death.  He was buried in Paris, but at his request his sister smuggled his heart back to Warsaw in Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-elgar\">Elgar<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/napkin-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/napkin-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/napkin-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/napkin.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/elgar\/\">Elgar<\/a> wrote the theme for his famous Cello Concerto on a napkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-grieg\">Grieg<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/frog-150x93.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/frog-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/frog-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/frog.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/grieg\/\">Grieg<\/a> always kept a good luck frog charm in his pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-schubert\">Schubert<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mushroom-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mushroom-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mushroom-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mushroom.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/schubert\/\">Schubert\u2019s<\/a> friends called him \u201cLittle Mushroom\u201d due to his short stature and round shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-handel\">Handel<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eye-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eye-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eye-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eye.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The eye surgeon John Taylor caused both Bach and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/handel\/\">Handel<\/a> to go blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dvorak\">Dvorak<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/steam-train-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/steam-train-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/steam-train-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/steam-train.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-scores.com\/blog\/dvorak\/\">Dvorak<\/a> was an avid trainspotter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learning fun and interesting facts about composers makes their music even more enjoyable. These stories show that the great musicians were just regular people with some quirky habits. Knowing about the funny and unique things they did helps us connect with them and appreciate their timeless music even more. So, as we listen to their beautiful melodies, it&#8217;s nice to think about the real people behind the music and the interesting stories that make their work even more special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun Facts and Tall Tales On a lighter note for this blog post we thought we&#8217;d have a look at some fun facts about composers. Composers, the creative minds behind some of the most timeless and enchanting musical pieces, have left an indelible mark on the world of classical and contemporary music. 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