But the facts are:

J.S.Bach: First wife died at age 36.
Mozart: Himself died age 35.
Beethoven: Troubled all through his life, never married any one though engaged once.
Tchaikovsky: His only marriage broke up in nine weeks. Thereafter or even before that he turned to homosexuality and Platonism.
Berlioz: With Symphony Fantasitique, he won his love, however only for a very short period of time.
Let’s travel through time and space line to modern China, 窦唯(Dou Wei)、张国荣(Lesile Cheung); Stretch a little bit wider to visual artists, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Ruiz Picasso….