Stirling Newberry:

>But it gets worse, he is ill mannered, and offends many people from polite
>society.  He's involved in radical politics and is often told to cool it
>when he utters remarks which disparge the right wing government and its
>leader - a man who he doesn't regard as being legitimately in power.  He
>fights with his publisher, he utters scathing attacks on the stupidity of
>critics.  How can he expect to get good press when he calls them idiots
>and morons?

But he's also a good composer, probably a great one, and dies rich, if not
comfortable (because he's a miser).  On the other hand, there are a lot of
rude, arrogant slobs who have no discernable grace whatsoever.

Steve Schwartz