Did the Curse of the Ninth KILL History's Greatest Composers?

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Like the "27 Club," the Curse of the Ninth is one of music's most infamous superstitions. Supposedly, completing a ninth symphony is essentially a death sentence. Composers go from composing to decomposing. In the ground. Dead. But how true is it, and where did it come from? Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) Follow Us: @30MorbidMinutes @ElyseWillems @jessicaaaaavasami Music by Casey Edwards @ComposerCasey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	If you're a death enthusiast like we are, you probably know about the 27 Club, a running list of musicians, artists, and other celebrities
1:12.1	who met their premature end at the age of 27.
1:16.1	We got Janice Joplin in the club, Jimmy Hendricks, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, all these
1:21.5	cursed subjects who died between 1969 and 1971.
1:26.1	But to quote Hendricks and Kurt Cobain's biographer Charles
1:29.4	R. Cross, it wasn't until Kurt Cobain took his own life in 1994 that the idea of the 27
1:36.3	club arrived in the popular zeitgeist. Since then, Amy Winehouse, Anton Yelchen,
1:42.5	Jonathan Brandes, and countless others have joined the club's tragic
1:46.2	ranks. There's actually another curse related to music in a somewhat similar vein that predates
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