>>127622616
>Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Handel, Tchaikovsky,
These genius men were childless
>Wagner, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Schumann
These weren't, Haydn had an illegitimate son, so he straggles on both sides of this spectrum

>but I would not compare them to the genius of Beethoven,
I'm not comparing them and putting them into tiers of genius, but the giving them the categorical of genius, which they are. You are right about the technical geniuses being childless, but I don't think that applies to the artistic ones, as all of them tend to be varied in their states of mind.