H. C. Robbins Landon

American musicologist.

Born March 6th, 1926 in Boston. [ref]

Died November 23rd, 2009 at 83 years old in Rabastens. [ref]

Occupations
biographer, composer, music historian, musicologist

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon