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.
More cluelesness.
Mozart was sent by his father when he was a young child to Padre Martini to study Fux' Gradus ad Parnassum (the classic study of strict counterpoint which forms the basis of all classical composition). Bach praised Fux' Gradus, Haydn studied it repeatedly over a period of YEARS, Beethoven studied it with Haydn and Albrechtsburger and kept his notebooks on it to the end of his life, Brahms used it.
No one absorbed it as young as Mozart did.
When Mozart was in his early teens he wrote the best canons ever written--and lots of them.
His mastery of counterpoint was phenomenal at that age.
Only the clueless with a complete ignorance of what counterpoint is would write
A lot of the ‘tricks’ his father had him perform could be done by any musically gifted child.