dying by numbers 1/3 Schoenberg/ Rälph1

Shouts going out to Mäx and Christoph!

Here is my first pick:
Arnold Schoenberg had (like me) triskaidekaphobia––the fear of number 13.
I always had it.

Schoenberg’s triskaidekaphobia might origin in the thirteenth song of the cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten, from 1908.
Moses und Aron was originally spelled Moses und Aaron, but because of containing 13 letters Schoenberg cut one’a’ in Aaron.
He feared to die during in year that was are multiples of 13. He dreaded his sixty-fifth birthday in 1939, but an astrologer told Schoenberg that the year was dangerous, but not fatal.
However in 1950, on his seventy-sixth birthday, his friend and mentor Oskar Adler warned him that the year would be critical because: 7 + 6 = 13. Schoenberg was depressed and died on Friday the 13th of July 1951, shortly before midnight. His wife Gertrud reported: “About a quarter to twelve I looked at the clock and said to myself: another quarter of an hour and then the worst is over. Then the doctor called me. Arnold’s throat rattled twice, his heart gave a powerful beat and that was the end.”

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