I can't get enough of the photos you post of famous composers.....some, like the one of Chopin, I didn't even think photography was common yet. Please keep posting them.
By coincidence, as I'm typing this I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's "Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor" with Madame Olga Kern, pianist. Good freeping music!
Leni
That photo was taken in the last year of his life. He looks a lot older than 53.