@ArchivistsAlley @JustinHowe Robert Schumann. It’s actually pretty tragic. The version of the story I told Justin was what my morbid music history prof told us, from a book titled HOW THEY DIED (about composers).
https://t.co/QO6cydxpDU
Apparently his skull grew spikes that pierced his brain. @ArchivistsAlley @JustinHowe (Or that’s what our prof explained.)
Looking around, it seems the consensus is that it was likely a mix of syphilis and some other kind of mental illness, and the weird stuff seen inside his skull was not related?
I dunno.