So, I was driving home today, listening to my beloved "Trout" quintet by Schubert (Shut up,
frostymook! :) ), when something occurred to me that I'd never really contemplated before. It occurred to me that some of the best composers, the ones that were turning out beautiful mature pieces when they were, like, 12, also had a tendency to die young. To wit:
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