Beethoven's gone, but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shoppin' no more
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door

Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh
whilst composing a long symphony
but one 'undred an' fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see

They're decomposing composers
There's nothing much anyone can do
You can still 'ear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot 'ear you

Handel and Haydn and Rachmaninoff
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal
but nowadays no one will serve them
and their gravy is left to congeal

Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound
The pianos they played are still working
but they're both six feet underground

They're decomposing composers
there's less of them every year
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to 'ear

Claude Achille Debussy, died 1918
Christophe Willibald Gluck, died 1787
Carl Maria von Weber, not at all well 1825, died 1826
Giacomo Meyerbeer, still alive 1863, not still alive 1864
Modest Mussorgski, 1880, going to parties, no fun anymore, 1881
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, chatting away nineteen to the dozen with
his mates down the pub every evening 1836, 1837, nothing

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What a pun-tastic headline.

pretty good.

Some really good headlines today.

i ed it

All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde

Turner 1775 to 1851
Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901
Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP
Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961
George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats,
Richard Redgrave 1804 to 1888
Henry Moore 1896 to 1986
Henry Miller, Sid Vicious only 21
Brian Jones
Otis Redding 1941 to 1967 RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

Masters of their arts
Claude Monet 1840 to 1926
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms,
Elvis Presley 1935 to '77
Man Ray, Johnny Ray
John Donne 1573 to 1631
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to '92
The generation art, Joan Miro, RIP
Jackson Pollack 1912 to 1956
John Lennon '40 to '80
Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare,
Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964
Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889
Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

Joseph Conrad 1857 to 1924
Jack Kerouac 1922 to 1969
Keith Moon 1946 to 1978
D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Mozart,
Van Gogh 1853 to 1890
Ian Curtis, Salvador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney's
Mickey Mouse RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

nice play, subby.

good gag. no 'who-dunnit' jokes?

That's an old Far Side gag.

Browncoat
My first thought, " Beethoven's gone.....
Just came in to make sure it was here.

I'm puffy999, and I approve this headline.

I like it, my kind of humor!

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