Statistics for Composers Who Died Young

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Age	When/Where	N	Cause of death	Work	Answer	% Correct
35	1791	Vienna	Unknown; likely tuberculosis	Requiem	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	94%
31	1828	Vienna	Syphilis	Ave Maria	Franz Schubert	72%
36	1875	Paris	Series of heart attacks	Carmen	Georges Bizet	72%
39	1849	Paris	Heart inflammation and tuberculosis	Nocturnes	Frédéric Chopin	67%
38	1937	Los Angeles	Brain tumor	Rhapsody in Blue	George Gershwin	67%
36	1695	London	Unknown; likely hypothermia	Dido and Aeneas	Henry Purcell	44%
33	1835	Paris	Liver failure	I puritani	Vincenzo Bellini	33%
24	1918	France	Bronchial pneumonia and tuberculosis	Psalms	Lili Boulanger	22%
34	1983	Paris	Hate crime; stabbing and suffocation	Zipangu	Claude Vivier	11%