The Curse of the Ninth Haunted These Composers

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Tuesday, 18 October 2016

With Halloween approaching, let's take a minute to explore one of classical music's more ghoulish superstitions: The Curse of the Ninth. In a nutshell, the curse is the belief that a composer will die after completing their ninth symphony.

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