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D Kerner

Publications and source records attributed to D Kerner.

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PubMed1981

[The death of Béla Bartók in New York. On the centenary of his birth, May 25th 1981 (author's transl)].

Soon after the Hungarian composer B. Bartók had emigrated to America in 1940, he developed a relapsing myelocytic leukemia while in New York, which was accompanied by joint complaints and pyrexia. Bartók, now reduced to a skeleton, fell a victim of pneumonia in 1945. In spite of blood transfusions and oxygen respiration he succumbed to his condition on 26th September 1945 at the age of 64.

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PubMed1979

[How Johannes Brahms died].

In 1896, when he was 63 years old, Johannes Brahms, who had always been demonstrably in good health, developed an icterus of increasing intensity together with a considerable enlargement of the liver and loss of weight. Since infectious hepatitis could scarcely come into the question, from the medical point of view a neoplasm in the region of the liver as well as cirrhosis of the liver were considered. While hepatic carcinoma is a relatively rare disease in Europe even today and Brahms, on the other hand, had consumed copious quantities of concentrated alcoholic drinks during his lifetime, cirrhosis of the liver is the most probable diagnosis, especially as at the end hemorrhages from esophageal varices and the lower intestinal segments occurred.

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PubMed1975

[The death of Ravel].

The composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was chronically ill during the last five years of his life. He was suffering from Pick's astrophy, the first signs of which appeared in 1923 and 1927 and which were probably already reflected in the stereotypy of the "Bolero" of 1928. Transient apractic symptoms were prominent, later, difficulty in finding words, agraphia and alexia. Ravel left no completed composition after an accident to the head in 1932. Complete apathy and involutional phenomena characterize the period before the death of the master, who passed away a few days after a surgical operation on the brain.

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