Musical lives cut short isn't just a rock'n'roll phenomenon

The pop world is this week mourning Whitney Houston's early death, but talented musicians have long lived too fast and died too youngThe great and not-so-good of pop music don't have a monopoly on tragically premature demises. Classical composers have been at it for centuries, many of them succumbing to the karmic consequences of a life lived with just as much commitment to dazzling dissolution as any of their ill-fated pop-world successors.Consider this for a list: Schubert, dead at 31; Mozart,...

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