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Subject: Re: Scientists and Mathematicians Who Wrote Music
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Date: 19 Feb 91 14:10:55 GMT
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>John Dunstable (mathematician, astronomer, composer).
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Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval officer and professor at the Naval Academy.
Cui, I believe, was a colonel or general.
Mussorgsky had a brief time as a subaltern in the Guards Regiment.
Indeed, I seem to recall that one of the other Russian composers of this group (who's name, embarassingly enough eludes me) was a professor of chemistry.
Usually military officers needed some form of mathematical knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote a few ditties as did Frederick the Great of
Prussia who was known for his scientific mind.

BOB