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Matthew de La Tour, "Joy." Courtesy of The Art of Autism. Used with permission.

Throughout history, artists, composers, and musicians have been plagued by personal demons. As a society, we adore the works of Beethoven, perhaps due in part to the crippling emotional impact his deafness had on his music. We appreciate Schumann, though he went insane through the latter stages of syphilis. But is there a more modern way of appreciating “mental” composers?


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