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Didn't famous classical composers have time to begat then?

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squidgelet10 | 14:37 Sat 04th Sep 2010 | Music
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Greetings each!
Being an avid classical music fanatic, it has gradually dawned on me that apart from Dmitri Shostakovich I am not aware of any other famous composers with any living direct (spear line) descendents.
OK some of them were gay, so would have probably have avoided the scenario but:
Wot about the rest then?
Where are all the Mozarts, Bach's and Beethovens then?
Surely they must have done SOME bonking and begatting in between other things?
This would make a good pub-quiz question.
Be good!
Cheers.
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Bach fathered 20 children (only 10 survived infancy), had 17 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. If he has no known descendants living today that is down to his descendants not begatting.
Wagner's descendants still run the festival in his memory at Bayreuth.
Just checked three random composers - Sibelius had six daughters, Mahler had two, no sons, and Elgar one, an only child.

Would explain why they and their descendents aren't known by their maiden names.
It's a good question, though.

As Sandy says, Wagner's family are still cashing in on ... oh, sorry, I mean "upholding Wagner's musical heritage"
Why did Bach have twenty children?
His organ had no stops.
Wagner was too busy working on his Ring.

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