German composer York Hoeller has won a $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for his orchestra work Sphaeren, a 40-minute piece dedicated to his wife, Ursula, who died in 2006. The Grawemeyer Awards are five ...

Giacomo Puccini, the most famous composer of his time, had died in Brussels as a result of surgery for throat cancer. Or rather, as a result of post-operative treatment.