Elsewhere in this issue you can read about music inspired by love and romance (p40). Squalid, sensation-seeking hack that I am, I am fascinated by the dark side of that subject: composers who have developed a fixation on some unattainable person and secretly expressed their obsession in coded form in their music, usually because they dared not speak it out loud.
What prevented them from doing the latter? Social convention, perhaps, if the person in question was felt