Revol Bunin's mother's death

Revol Bunin was a minor Russian composer (1924-1976). His mother had always been sickly, and when she was dying (when he was 14), she asked him to play the piano for her. Through the night he played Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Mussorgsky. The next morning he had his first attack of asthma, the disease that ultimately would kill him.