Kim Patrick Clow wrote: >>Imagine had Mozart lived just another 5 years....the mind staggers at >>the loss. Roger Hecht replied: >You can confort yourself with the hypothesis that perhaps Mozart died >young precisely because he gave us everything he had. A while ago there was a thread on this list posing the question of which composer's premature death had been the greatest loss of potential musical genius. In this particular contest, I'd cast my vote for Schubert. Not because he was necessarily the greatest of those who died young, but because he was just beginning to achieve a level of brilliance that could have been far more. - seb