Tag: composers
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Clinical signs in images of King Henry VII
Stephen MartinDurham, United Kingdom Westminster Abbey has a superb effigy that was made for the funeral of King Henry VII. (Fig 1) Henry, born in 1457 and deceased in 1509, was famous for defeating Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. The effigy has such breathtaking detail that it was probably made from a…
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Robert Schumann’s hand injury
James L. Franklin Chicago, Illinois, United States Robert and Clara Schumann. By Eduard Kaiser. 1847. Via Wikimedia The death of the American pianist Leon Fleisher (1928–2020)1 whose brilliant career as a piano soloist was upended in his mid-thirties by the development of a crippling movement disorder affecting his right hand, brings to mind the composer…