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By Franz Hermann Franken. Transcribed and edited by Karel B. Absolon. 361 pp., illustrated. Rockville, Md., Kabel, 1996. $79.50. ISBN 1-57529-010-3.

Most historians and musicologists know too little science and medicine to discuss the illnesses of their subjects, and most physicians are ill equipped to examine historical and biographical material. Franken is one of a small group of physicians with sufficient musical training to help us bridge this gap. Diseases of Famous Composers presents vignettes from the lives of 22 composers and more detailed analyses of their medical histories and presumed diagnoses, as well as occasional other curiosities. Fifteen of the 22 were German-speaking, and distinguished figures such as Verdi, Puccini, Elgar, Britten, and Ives are omitted.

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