Incredible: 8-year girl playing Mozart
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That's nothing. Mozart played Mozart when he was five!
More importantly, Mozart was creating Mozart.
It is indeed very impressive that she can play such music at her age, but to me it is a long shot from being able to create such grand music.
I've seen these child prodigies in action before (there are hordes of them).
They're very technically impressive, but their playing lacks ... it lacks the sort of things that you can only give if you've had adult experiences. Mozart's music is the perfect show-piece for them, because it was written by a composer who also lacked the exact same thing. The result is very technical and very soulless.
Give her some Tchaikovsky to play and see how she gets on.
They're very technically impressive, but their playing lacks ... it lacks the sort of things that you can only give if you've had adult experiences. Mozart's music is the perfect show-piece for them, because it was written by a composer who also lacked the exact same thing. The result is very technical and very soulless.
Give her some Tchaikovsky to play and see how she gets on.
