Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Park, Tuesday June 5, will be performed a grand concert of vocal and instrumental music. For the benefit of Miss Mozart of eleven and Master Mozart of seven years of age, Prodigies of Nature; taking the opportunity of representing to the public the greatest prodigy that Europe or that human nature has to boast of. Everybody will be astonished to hear a child of such a tender age playing the harpsichord in such perfection—it surmounts all fantastic imagination and it is hard to express which is more astounding, his execution upon the harpsichord playing at sight or his own compositions.’1 Even when we allow for Leopold Mozart’s hyperboles and the fact that he deducted a year from his children’s ages, young Wolfgang was clearly one of the great musical prodigies.
Author: J S Jenkins
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2107718939