Saturday, July 4, 2009

Mozart The Late Bloomer

"Mozart's first work regarded to day as a masterpiece, with its status confirmed by the number of recordings available, is his Piano Concerto No. 9, composed when he was twenty-one. That's certainly an early age, but we must remember that by then Wolfgang had been through eighteen years of extremely hard, expert training." - Geoff Colvin

It's easy to confuse experience as giftedness. Don't! Genius for most is the fruit of hard work.

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