All ten composers left behind ten common clues related to their deaths.

The 23-year-old composer would have left behind him two sensational operas and several compelling instrumental works.

He and Handel were good friends; the composer left the librettist 200 pounds in his will.

Sometimes composers leave the orchestration of their works to other people.

Again: the composer did not write this all down but left it to the performer to improvise something nice around the notes he had written.

If the composer had left the opera in this form, the Verdi revival would still have reached it, because its beauties are many.

The charanam's last line usually contains the composer's sign, or mudra, with which the composer leaves their mark.

Separating fact from fantasy has been especially difficult in Beethoven's case, even though the composer left a vast number of documents detailing his own life.

One argument finds the composer left centerless and amorphous through the loss of noble purpose.

But the composer himself leaves the question open.