And to top it off...he had so much more to give. He was murdered.
Believe it or not, Tchaikovsky was considered a homosexual and at that time of conservative Russian society, homosexual can be prosecuted.
Although his dead was left much speculations around, but one of the consipiracy theory suggested that Tchaikovsky was ordered to kill himself by none other than the Russian Tsar.
Looking back at the history, most of the famous composers died early such as Chopin, Mozart, Franz Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Mendelsson