The most bizarre composer facts

Ever wanted to know some truly odd facts about the great composers? Some might've been embellished over the years, but we can't get enough of these strange and surprising nuggets of information about some of our favourite big names.

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   1. Arnold Schoenberg

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   2. Joseph Haydn

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   3. Franz Schubert

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   4. Bach and Handel

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   5. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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   6. Robert Schumann

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   7. Edvard Grieg

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   8. Alexander Glazunov

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    9. Frederic Chopin

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    10. Ludwig Van Beethoven

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    11. Camille Saint Saens

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    12. Felix Mendelssohn

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    13. Richard Strauss

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    14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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    15. Antonin Dvorak

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    16. Edward Elgar

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    17. Antonio Vivaldi

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    18. Maurice Ravel

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    19. Georg Frederic Handel

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    20. Johannes Brahms

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    21. John Rutter

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    22. Ralph Vaughan Williams

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