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Final moments
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Gerald Finzi: 15 facts about the Great Composer
14. Final moments
In 1956, following an excursion with Vaughan Williams, Finzi developed shingles. He died not much later in an Oxford hospital, the first performance of his Cello Concerto on the radio having been given the night before.
