Beethoven and Schubert -- each in his own way a tragic figure -- worked in the same city at the same time and produced some of the most significant bodies of work in all music.
They didn't socialize -- age, personality, and class differences precluded that -- but they had a great esteem for each others' talent, and it's easy to see why that was so.
We'll go back to early 19th-century Vienna this week, and we'll just sit back and enjoy the music of these two contemporaries.
