Composers
- Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, died in 1805 of pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Alfredo Catalani
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) died of consumption at age 39 (see the discussion for details). Historical records indicate episodes of hemoptysis during performances.
- Sandrine Erdely-Sayo pianist/composer
- Stephen Foster
- Hermann Goetz
- Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold
- Joseph Martin Kraus
- Niccolò Paganini
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) died of tuberculosis at 26.
- Henry Purcell
- Johann Schein
- Igor Stravinsky
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Jimmy Palao (1879–1925) Jazz musician died of tuberculosis at 45.
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“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)