Music is one of the most important things… in life (certainly in my life anyway). I prefer Bach… particularly any solo piano work such as his “Inventions and Sinfonias”, Gouldberg Variations, etc… but there is something so intoxicating about Mozart–his slow, effortless melodies, driving rhythms… so I couldn’t help but read this article off www.aldaily.com (arts & letters daily) about the genius of Mozart. (click image for article)

But hard work notwithstanding, little “Wolfgangerl” was spectacularly precocious, spending hours at the keyboard at three and composing at four or five. Reported a contemporary English observer of the boy’s ability simply to sight-read:

“Suppose, then, a capital speech in Shakespeare never seen before, and yet read by a child of eight years old, with all the pathetic energy of Garrick. Let it be conceived likewise, that the same child is reading, with a glance of his eye, three different comments on this speech tending to its illustration; and that one comment is written in Greek, the second in Hebrew, and the third in Etruscan characters?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ . When all this is conceived, it will convey some idea of what this boy was capable of.”

Can you imagine? I cannot conceive how a mind could work like that.