Composers - Substance Abusers

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Summary - The aim of this article is to emphasize and summarize some pathographies of eminent composers, about more than seventy of them, who were substance abusers, mostly alcohol abusers and/or tobacco, opioid, narcotics, and drug abusers. Most of them suffered from symptomatic alcoholism, which helped them solve different life problems such as sensitive personalities, social communication, neurotic disturbances, depression, psychosis. The average age of death in this group is fifty three years. The oldest among them is Sibelius (92 years), the youngest Bürgmüller (26 years). There are many composers who were substance abusers but a few of them were severe abusers, whose music and …