re: #327 austin_blue
Mozart wrote pretty, complex tunes for small orchestra and light opera. Bright kid, but he burned out like a member of The Pretenders and croaked.
It would be interesting to see, if he had lived longer, if he grew a set of stones like Beethoven did, and write masterpieces. He may have just continued to be a pop music writer in his dotage. Pretty, complex, but ultimately empty.
Read a short story a few years back about a guy who invents a time machine and uses it rescue his favorite composer who had a reputation for drugs, womanizing and was presumed to have died during a plague.
So he brings the guy to the modern day and shows him how people are still listening to his work and how he can keep being a great composer of classical music. The composer starts learning more about the modern world, decides “screw classical music, I’m going to be a rock star” and dies of an overdose inside of a year.