Don Satz: >Was Lekeu a highly talented composer, and how would you describe his music? Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894) is one of the composers that I like most maybe because he is -like Comte de Lautreamont- a real genius who passed away in his early twenties (one day after his twenty-fourth birthday). Lekeu, like many of Cesar Franck's pupils, have a strong sense of architecture and a marvellous gift for melody. He is young but his music is old and very sad; in his chamber music output his model is Beethoven's late string quartets. I think that it is very touching to listen to the music of a composer who died in an age that I have now. [BARIS]