Destinies of croatian 20th century composers

Abstract

In this article the authors are presenting medical diseases of the composers. They statistically pres-ent the reasons and circumstances of their death in old age (75 composers, medium longevity is 75.1 years, in percentage it is 90.36 % of composers). The majority of composers died from chronic noninfectious diseases, from cancer, heart attack or stroke. Pneumonia is possibly the last stage of the chronic disease because of composers long living. The other infectious diseases happened to younger composers as well as suicide and death in detention camps (8 composers, medium longevity is 52.5 years, in percentage it is 9.64 % of compos-ers); (in total 83 composers, longevity is 72.9 years, in percentage it is 100% of composers).