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The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch Poetry_Gift_Guide Skoshie the Cat lives onThe first granular study of nineteenth century composer devotiona network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made composers into figureheads of a lasting Western canon. Alongside this institutional face of the canon was a more intimate impulse to preserve, touch, and embrace