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“What does your conscience say?“ Nietzsche asks. “You shall become who you are.“ A peculiarly poignant question mark hangs over the works of young composers cut off at the moment of realization -- Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, for instance, Guillaume Lekeu, Lili Boulanger, or Julius Reubke. Qualities suggesting genius vary widely, but in every case, though we cannot say who these eternally young people might have become, there is no doubt they would have been, each, someone to be reckoned with. The 22-year-old R
