Unusual Classical Composer Deaths

Match the cause or manner of death to the composer
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Blood poisoning from an infected insect sting
Shot by an American GI while smoking a cigarette
Blood poisoning from an infected pimple
Complications from botched eye surgery performed by the same man who blinded Handel
Eating soup made with poisonous mushrooms after two chefs refused to prepare them for him
Riding a bicycle downhill and crashing into a brick wall
Collapsed at a ball at a medical academy, possibly due to a ruptured aorta
Erotic asphyxiation gone wrong
Drinking unboiled water during a cholera epidemic
Stabbed himself in the foot while conducting and later developed gangrene
Drowned trying to save his wife after a torpedo attack
Alban Berg
Alexander Borodin
Alexander Scriabin
Anton Webern
Enrique Granados
Ernest Chausson
František Kotzwara
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Johann Schobert
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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