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To: Borges

There may be the need to make a distinction between being a child performing prodigy, and being a compositional prodigy.

Agreed that his earliest stuff is merely ‘good’ to ‘very good’, but we don’t know how good of a performer he was at that age, relative to the standards of the time.


56 posted on 08/12/2015 10:43:29 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: RedStateRocker

A lot of the ‘tricks’ his father had him perform could be done by any musically gifted child. Mozart is remembered for the great music he wrote as an adult.


59 posted on 08/12/2015 10:45:28 AM PDT by Borges
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