I think I know what you mean. I, too, have often thought of the fate of great men of the past. So many artists, architects, writers, poets and composers have died at a younger age (much younger than Beethoven even). It is almost impossible for the modern human brain to process and make sense of this. But you know what - I think that people in the past lived much more valuable and fulfilling lives. I feel like they used their time in a much more valuable way. They created great things in a very short time, and perhaps time for them ran in a different way.
But if this is not the case, we are left again with the reassurance that everything is fate and nothing can be changed. This man should have come into the world in this short period of time, to create some great things, and then go away.
What do we mere mortals know about this matter at all? 🤔