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Latest Music Article: The Youngest Famous Piano Players

The Youngest Famous Piano Players

by Shannon M. Singh

Inspiring tales about ultra talented pianists are abundant in our history, but it is stories about the really young ones that most fascinating. Mozart, for example, played to European royalty at a ridiculously early age, also beginning to compose music at the age of five. Many more stories present themselves, of pianists with incredible talent and startling youth.

One such example is Frdric Chopin, a 19th century polish composer, who began giving public concerts at age seven, and went on in the same year to compose two polonaises. His talent soon had him compared to Mozart as a child, and so he was widely renowned as being a child prodigy. He grew up to become a virtuoso in his art.

Ludvig van Beethoven is another much cited example of a child prodigy. Baptised on 17th December 1770, he was only seven when he gave his first public performance, and his talents were already astounding then. His father famously exaggerated that he was six on the posters for the performance.

It would be an oversight to only look to centuries past when looking for talent of this magnitude in such young people; it would be a shame to overlook the 12st century. Plenty of young children have shown unfathomable amounts of musical ability in this century. A quick search in YouTube will bring up plenty of videos documenting this, some children as young as four years old playing things that many adults wouldn't go near.

One example really stands above the rest, though. In 2008 the Birmingham born, seven year old pianist Cyril Vincent passed his grade four exam and won awards in recognition of his ability. What is even more surprising is that he had only been playing the instrument for two years at that time. He was also the youngest student, topping his rival by five years, to be admitted to the University of Music and Theatre in Hanover in Germany where he stayed for three months.

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Title: The Youngest Famous Piano Players
Author: Shannon M. Singh
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