Talk:Felix Mottl

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-- Kleinzach 06:00, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

He did not die "while conducting", or even "shortly afterwards"
I’m not at all sure Felix Mottl belongs in the category Category:Conductors who died while conducting.

I’ve recently added some words to the category explaining that it is not restricted to those who literally died on the podium while in the act of conducting. It can include conductors who left or were taken from the podium after becoming ill, and died shortly afterwards, either backstage or in a hospital. But Mottl died 11 days after falling ill while conducting. While we do not and probably should not define what “shortly afterwards” means, I think 11 days is way out of the ballpark. In Mottl’s case, he still had time to marry his girlfriend before kicking the bucket.

Even if he does belong in this category, he doesn’t also belong in Category:Deaths onstage, as Conductors who died while conducting is a sub-sub-category of Deaths onstage.

Comments? --  Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   21:26, 6 July 2010 (UTC)