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TIL about composer Claude Vivier’s murder in 1983, which some believe was actually an elaborate suicide. Vivier was stabbed to death by a man he picked up at a bar. Later an unfinished score of Vivier’s was found in which the protagonist Claude is stabbed to death by a man he meets in the subway.

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