Yes! Definitely!George Butterworth, killed in action in WWI, aged 31. Could have maybe rivalled his friend Vaughan otherwise?
And yes again...Alban Berg ...died of an infected mosquito bite in 1935, aged 50. His Violin Concerto was one of his last pieces, still to be premiered when he died and showed he really had somewhere to go.
Hmm, yes, good point that.Schubert every day of the week. Look at what he'd created by the age of 31. He'd been pretty much on fire since age 15 or something! Though of course there's the unsolvable conundrum of how his music might have sounded had he not been mortally ill. Would we have had lots more Trout quintets.
Dross is not a word often used to describe the music of Schubert, relative or otherwise!Hmm, yes, good point that.
Schubert without the existential angst.
He did write a lot of relative dross along the way imo, as well as the profoundest masterpieces.
Perhaps cure him of the syphilis but not tell him?
A bit mean, but we wouldn't want to be without D. 887,958/9/60 etc and their putative successors.
Wanderer Fantasy, hmmm, I suppose you might have a point there .
I think that a difficult life, however unpleasant for the composer, does give rise to some of the greatest works. On the other hand just think of Sibelius; the state eased all his cares by housing and feeding him with the result that he stopped composing. In modern times it is the old prozac conundrum. Medicate the artist and medicate away their creativity.