Nature has different times.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.