Did You Know....? - Classical Gas


Composer Jean Baptiste Lully, director of music at the court of Louis XIV, died form an injury sustained while conducting.  
He inadvertently pierced his foot with a long cane which he was beating on the floor to indicate the tempo.  An abscess developed, swiftly followed by gangrene.

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