Death
His opera, Huckleberry Finn, commissioned by the Barney Jaffin Foundation, was presented by The Juilliard Opera Company just months before his death on November 24, 1972, aged 52, from cirrhosis of the liver.
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“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
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