[000:00:00;00] ah, different to manage that at 8 years old. that even looking at it today at $42.00. he comes close to that strange term honda came from because like, oh, musical child prodigies take our breath away. the quest, the musical perfection is their top priority. by close of my goal is to play carnegie hall. it's a flu. the extraordinary challenge often appears very early. this estimate, i 1st started playing piano when i was to i started playing and composed a whole piece company at the cliches is the child prodigies. a lonely with few friends, and i drilled to perfection. contact,

talk about to cry under pressure not to shake under pressure that there are kids 567 years old. who get incredible migrant off to concerts. i did to god. oh, how much miracle is there in highly talented children? are they born with these extraordinary abilities? we talked to former char prodigies as well as a human development researcher, and music psychologist and a music historian. german star violinist david garrett is one of today's most successful crossover musicians . his fusion of classical and pop fills holes and stadiums around the world. which by music for me, music has always let me breathe,

given me energy and joy at us near in an e e. e give plus the whole thing. the violin was a means to an end. if i was good at it, i learned to play fairly quickly, alone, and that of course i also worked hard harmless. oh, his journey with the violin began at 4 years old. father gail recognized his son's talent and started teaching him oh, david took giant steps and gave his 1st solo concerts with an orchestra at the age of 9. and you are very aware of all the hours he spent on each night that you've worked really hard for it. us housed opposite. listen. hard on the notes is one thing that what makes a child prodigy?

there isn't any doubt that the children have natural capabilities that are very rare. it also requires the efforts of those around the child to be equally focused and equally dedicated. then equally was about how to support and promote that talent. david's father invested in him, his career broke records. at 13, he was the youngest musician ever to be signed by renowned, classical music labeled deutsch gramaphone for several albums. david has worked with stars like conductor claudio, a battle to be in meta and violin virtuoso. yahoo! the menu hain at that he'll feel like a burden to you, growing up. good. he hadn't tuck every day. up. absolutely. can no kid willingly sacrifices the time it takes to reach the top, the man, there's always someone in the background or whether it's the mother and father or

the teachers. it's in the money when that want infinity mata, or that fata would at a lever about i. one of those 3 is always then much slippery in hand and empathy. what's it like to be a gifted child? can they still have a childhood? ah, in peters hoggard, near berlin, miles and maddox governed the families daily life. simona ma select is driving her sons to piano and violin lessons to day. one of 7 lessons per week. she says she often gets judged. i get labeled as a pushy mother who keeps her po, kids away from life and forces them to practice the piano and violin. i've also seen someone on facebook say the best way to make money is with small children. people ignore the fact that it takes money,

time and nerves. they see what they want to see. my mom was actually was gonna have nurturing her children's talents. is a full time job for this single mother in berlin, concert pianist. and he's a vet of lumina, has been teaching medics and miles for about 4 years. the boys cannot imagine living without piano and violin. these are silly, then you're in even does he, if we see like here that there's nothing without music, then i have to do everything to make sure that they have the groundwork to decide later if they want this or not on concrete, on childen beliefs of really stuff picked door like neat, oh let it's johan has known this focus on music since childhood. the 19 year old has already performed on many major stages and is considered a highly gifted pianist. ah, my brother, 13 year old philip is also a talented pianist. and, and i might have off in

a normal week, we practice a lot. we have rehearsals, sometimes concepts. we spend $34.00, sometimes 5 days at the university in belgium, target in doubt. when you february, i am begging, ah, the siblings are multi talented. the teacher started school aged for and finished high school. at 14, she studies at a conservatory in belgium. as does. i have never known the kind of schooling that other children have mine a should side to which the way i describe my time at school should photo is that i always stood out to find been dizzy. and i only had to say half a sentence. and everyone knew i was a bit different. i let her keep. m isn't vincent unless alicia and christian hon arranged their lives around their children's needs. i have to be flexible and they were cows or intensive support would be impossible. and that takes energy and my eyes, if you,

they normally play about 60 concepts per year. right now. there are more abroad in japan, china and south america. she not only, ah, medical practices, the piano, 3 to 4 hours a day. he repeats the variations on a theme by violent virtuoso paganini until every note is perfect. miss hotley amused competition. he hasn't one and has accumulated more than a 100 prizes so far. as good time, i never get to the point where i'm completely happy with the way i play it to freedom. maddox is a fast learner and has an insatiable hunger for knowledge. he needs to work on complex tasks and even as a toddler, that was already challenging for his parents. a lot the school. i'm glad when he got ward, which often turned into screaming and tantrums, that would sometimes last for 20 minutes. because if you could see that,

he just didn't know what to do with herself. but his godfather told us he's under challenged. he needs activity and input for his brain, or he's so smart that he needs a different stimulus. him. and that's where music came in. at the age of 3, medics played his 1st melodies on the piano. it may even be, although there's no way to know yes for sure. that child cottages in the music have as a natural and dallas preference for music as their primary way of communicating with the world more then speech and language and more than any other area. but whether it's that or not, it's certainly very powerful. and it drives for maddox was already giving his 1st concerts. ah, and at 7 he played a concert at the prestigious mozart, he music academy in song, austria,

metrics and miles have been taken out of normal schooling. it's a decision that can actually be beneficial for musically gifted children. because now i won't grasp fillings foster. he doesn't need to spend 6 hours at school if he can get it done in one or 2. i know that's why we said he doesn't have to do the time in school. he can learn at his own pace when it suits him aside and help inside him. and that also gives him enough time to prepare for concent site and competitions for life. since he doesn't have to spend as much time in school because title fund hopefully should have their world is not the same as your world or my world. it's a different kind of experience, and it has to be dealt with in its own way so that they often isolate themselves so that they can focus and the outside world we look at that is something that is objectionable, but it may be necessary. david garrett's father made sure his sons childhood could

be completely devoted to the violin, music, education, concerts, and studio recordings. with the highest priority, he got dated both the best teachers and meetings with the most important decision makers in the music industry. in his recently published biography, if you only knew david got described among other things, a childhood without children. oh, let's see her advice and also as i thought i was definitely an outside o o d i and i was a child in an adult profession kind. it's not usually a profession done by kids itself. he said, if it were, it would be called child labor. ah, when i teach my dad of course, he can't call that up for him, but i was only surrounded by adults. i was only 13, but the conversations at the record company were with adults in with the directors to conductors, the teachers and the patrons after the concerts. everyone around me was an adult audience and done. it says at our ppd, elizar vaccine does. i'm and you never wanted to break away well with vo fun is

from white. my does he earned wooden ben. why didn't even know i was in something you could break out of had the can fog light. i had no comparison. this is he but hide when you grow up in a shoe box and you don't know any one outside of the shoe box in south that shoe box is the world to box he. there's david kept exceeding audience expectations, but that didn't save him from his father's criticism that as their feet, they're talking, he put a lot of emphasis on me understanding very quickly what he didn't think was good. so he always made his own recordings of the concerts in my direct often um moved out on the car ride home, we listened to it through the speakers and of course he immediately began voicing his criticism like the critic to go. i said,

ah, looking back, he believes he never would have made it to the top of the ultra exclusive classical music business without his father's perfectionism and pressure that no my neighbor, he made my life possible. move them off of the ha in a hard way of him. but mozart didn't have it any easier once, nor did paganini like i got in comparison. i was probably handled with kid gloves, but i know they were beaten black and blue. these until i'm pretty sure about that customer. there was not every gifted musician experience as a child would have pressure and sacrifice. not all of them become stars, but they do have one thing in common. it's that they've always been fascinating. throughout history,

there have been many musical geniuses whose talent was considered otherworldly by contemporaries like bach. beethoven and handle sticks in the middle of the paper were more religious in the 18th century and associated something divine with the concept of these miracle children. that sentiment is probably a bit lost on us nowadays, although the term miracle is to use to describe them. and i think it's still influences our perception of this phenomenon in august for one child prodigy most people will know is vulcan. on the day of mozart, born in 1756, he wrote his 1st compositions. at the age of 5, his father leopold recognized his son's extraordinary talent early on and began to promote him publicly the script and believe from vis a letter from leopold mozart where he basically says that a miracle had taken place in salzburg and that god had caused a prodigy to be born that had his choice of words makes me think of the nativity

story with a kind of musical savior having entered the world's se gleiss am i not? was a casual highlander of david is in saigon for i listen i'm. it's like instagram the own, it was all fake, even back in the 18th century, or he just used these stories to feel the newspapers, to create some vas as creating an image to the absolutely, ah, could the home concept of the child for the change is be the result of a clever p r campaign. his father made a profit by taking 7 year old more than one extensive concert to us. on most guns passingly apartment, there is no doubt that leopold mozart was as shrewd businessman. he wrote somewhere and we must do this now because in 2 years time this ora will be gone. was the old mozart gets the more his child prodigy status will fade document. leopold mozart knew that he had to act quickly. shanella again, both grand amadeus mozart. the prototype of

a child prodigy. also in terms of his talent. there is a long history, for example, of trying to, to her tray, most charges having had the extra or protean across many different fields. reality is that mozart was unbelievable, probably gifted in his musical. allen's but he wasn't particularly adopt in anything else and that's more typical of the child. prodigy. 2 a conductor, daniel baron boy, maiden name to himself, in childhood, both as a piano player and a conductor. he was already studying conducting at the age of 10. but his reported to have once said that he was never a child prodigy. he merely got off to start who to go to diplomatic form, when to put it diplomatically. if you take someone who is wonderfully talented and combine that with a lot of work, it can come across as if it's something incredible on get all the pieces this them

on the i letting within. but once you have a loop behind the scenes and you know how much work goes into it again, it doesn't seem like a miracle at all that they became a child prodigy, one that can help me for the i'm wound up. but how exactly can we define a prodigy? and is this such a thing as natural talent? can any chance become musical wanda? ah, it's just not true that you could take any child in this and work hard enough at it . you could lose the highest levels of achievement. it just is not true. interesting. the child's i q plays little to no role in explaining musical talent. professor feldman to find some musical prodigy is someone who from the age of 10 can perform at the same level as an adult professional and has the necessary dispositions. one of those is that your child has

a natural affinity for music and a natural ability to, to perform, to compose or to be, to be in the musical world. in addition, the child has to have the discipline, has to have a tendency to focus and to be persistent for the wound. a kid needs to have the potential to achieve outstanding things. however, in order for it to happen, the environment needs to be chest, right? these are dividends on this definition of give that is having the potential to achieve something great is pretty much hypothetical. there are lots of ifs and buts and you need the right conditions. someone who has just started to play an instrument won't be pulling off the top to performance from the get go. but in some cases, it is possible to see a trajectory forming and predict what the next 5 years might bring. the longest lessons ah, behind the scenes,

most child products have highly invested parents. they are the ones that with this support, see their children progress in the vital 1st stages of development. would you settle for this file in or is solar the only option? only solo only solo. and if that doesn't work out within the santa work, and if not, well, i don't know. why shouldn't it? ah, and a sophie motto was right. she's been at the very top tier in the world, a violin for almost 4 decades now. and so she had her 1st violin lessons at the age of 5. since then she hasn't put the instrument down. he she is at age 10. 0 my last look. i think if you're not enough to discover something early on, that makes you happy and have the opportunity to do it professionally. i've been,

it doesn't really matter how long you get to be in that profession. see 10 years or 50 plus 50 or up. and i found my parents fully supported, answer the right from the start, and at any cost, ah, in on some fathers, in this image we spend of 2000 marks a year on anna, sophia, musical education was look like we never force anything on her lee. we let her develop her skills as she sees fit, certify she herself, wants to be violinist more than anything save our role is to make sure that she has all the opportunities and can follow the path she wants to take and hope you're feeling movie and a sophie motto was just 13 years old when conductor herbert from carrion, discovered her becoming her mentor, the beginning of a fairy tale career that continues to this day without the initial support of her parents. none of this might ever have happened. the choke had,

have all the talent in the world and in the wrong family in the wrong circumstances was wrong. teachers, it will not happen. the situation becomes problematic when parents live vicariously through their children. encouragement and support continued to drilling and coercion, the childhood of chinese pianist lang lang, was one marred by poverty and a despotic father help. and when promoting his talented on his early years were characterized by ruthless discipline and constant. philip, japanese violinist, missouri was also subject to immense pressure growing up under a strict and ambitious mother. at the age of 14, she was already working with the likes of leonard bernstein bidding her early twenties. she suffered a mental breakdown so severe that it took a whole 6 years and several hospitalizations before she could find her way back to music. that there's always a danger in putting children under this kind of pressure. it can quite easily

become detrimental and not conducive to a successful career. but individuals react to outside influence very differently. how they develop then is down to psychological predispositions, vision on dogs, which will, oh, but talon needs to be nurtured. the question facing parents like simona ma select to what extent it's undeniable that maddox and miles live for their music in their performances. they have to at the globe for countless concerts and competitions. beat in israel, or a competition at london's royal albert hall. working with the prodigy is a different kind of parenting than it is or most other children. it means that for example, a family will sacrifice living where they live and travel half way across the world to go to the place where they believe that child will have the

best opportunity for the simple mother caring for not one but 2 highly talented sons means around close support. ah, having another done guy. yeah, no lessons, violin lesson you singing lessons, composition lessons and all the wrestling home one day. you have to go get him. you though the next you have to go get a violin. think you have to pass concepts and competitions. it's a lot to do. what does that leave any time for you? like no time sidney miles and medics were made for the stage, and it's already clear to them where they are headed. all the way to the top. that often will be on the big stage as soon enough happening clump like, oh, my goal is to play carnegie wholeheartedly. but a korea isn't guaranteed in this highly competitive world. most child, prodigy say good bye to the idea of becoming

a professional musician before they reach adulthood. ah, what was that you have to know what to do with that kind of talent? how to use it to something that fulfills you and makes you happy. i was gripped his mom to day as a young adult. let's johan is sure. one thing being a pianist is her clean. the mother, i don't support my children in what they do. that's descriptive and we didn't want that boy. oh, david garrett had to learn to withstand the daily pressure from his parents. after all an international career and music required perfection day after day. ah, there have been each day, could you am i to criticize how my parents raised me then? that's when it's made my adult life so much easier is on this lead and that it's essentially an ethical question. if a fog would you rather have

a relax childhood only to struggle through the rest of life afterwards and sponsors would are lacking? or do you say ok, maybe my childhood wasn't ideal, but life got easy afterwards because of it, can you answer me that i da faster this, lena? 0 life. but unfortunately, due to us is good. it is a child. you can't consciously make that kind of decision on your own was allowed me perfectly true, but i also can't look back and say was the wrong decision. i just can't ah, ah, so what does it all boil down to in the end? the challenge for the child prodigy and the child prodigy family is to bring that towel to its full expression. it requires deep knowledge and understanding and you can register the best way to navigate a child's upbringing and education is to cultivate their self confidence. parents

need to give their children the courage to take risks and find their own way, skipped the best parents and best teachers don't put the child into circumstances where that child sense of development is distorted. it's tricky because ah, synagogue children should be allowed to enjoy being young. i do everything i can to make sure magic miles have their time off time where they can be kids like the others or and on one foot. shake, sad fate has been incredibly good to me, but i've worked hard to get where i am now. but i am also aware that i've been very, very lucky, right time. right. place my past has always been easy, but i wouldn't change

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