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From: tss@astrovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Death of Tchaikovsky.
Message-ID: <212@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 12:58:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 27 12:58:40 1984
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Nope. Tchaikovsky died of cholera after drinking unboiled water during an
epidemic in, I think, Leningrad. Biographers and musicologists have speculated
ad infinitum as to whether or not this was intentional, considering all of
T.'s other problems.