"Related through the student-teacher lineage to Beethoven by way of his instructor, Artur Schnabel, the pianist Leon Fleisher displayed from his earliest years an exceptional gift. A child prodigy at the keyboard, he went on to a brilliant career, with recordings that are regarded to this day as classic and definitive. And then, like a hero from a Greek tragedy, he was struck down in his prime: At the age of thirty-six, he suddenly and mysteriously...