All biographies that I have read, and all reports even including those of his
widow, indicate that he died of complications from bronchial pneumonia....
The pneumonia was complicated in part by Furtwangler's lack of will to live; from an earlier treatment of the same disease, antibiotics and other medication affected his hearing, and that
depressed him significantly. Most reports indicate that at his final illness, he was resigned to death -- and when he went to a sanitorium for treatment he even said "they think I've come here to recover, but I've come here to die."
Henry Fogel
widow, indicate that he died of complications from bronchial pneumonia....
The pneumonia was complicated in part by Furtwangler's lack of will to live; from an earlier treatment of the same disease, antibiotics and other medication affected his hearing, and that
depressed him significantly. Most reports indicate that at his final illness, he was resigned to death -- and when he went to a sanitorium for treatment he even said "they think I've come here to recover, but I've come here to die."
Henry Fogel