> On Aug 1, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Alain Veylit <[email protected]> wrote: > > This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his > private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the Torah on > the top shelf?
Not to be a killjoy, but: "He remained a strict member of the Jewish faith in which he had been brought up, and was widely read in classical and biblical lore. This may account for the story, which seems to have no basis of truth, that he died under a collapsed bookcase; de Bertha’s account of his death mentions no such incident. --Hugh McDonald in Grove To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
