[Our surgical heritage. Theodore Billroth and music].
Since his early youth Billroth had an extraordinary aptitude for music and actively practised music. Billroth developed to a piano player of high standing. Even as a young professor in ordinary for surgery he worked as a composer of music and wrote critical essays of concerts for journals of music. Later on, a lifelong friendship developed between him and the famous composer Johannes Brahms in Vienna.
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Das chirurgische Erbe. Theodor Billroth und die Musik.