By Andrew Benson Brown
Many composers had pets, and most of them seem to have been dog people. Wagner had about a dozen over the course of his life. Edward Elgar also had several, and even alludes to a friend’s bulldog in No. XI of his “Enigma” variations. Beethoven formed a bond with the dog of one of this pupils he was in love with. When she rejected his marriage proposal, the canine, Gigon, followed him around…
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