and of the age of made the final episode in our series. the great meet debate reflect the real thing. yeah. in 60 minutes on d w. ah, what people have to say matters to us. ah, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. ah, just to manage that at 8 years old. that even looking at it today at $42.00. he comes close to that strange $101.00 to came from because like it. oh, musical child prodigies. take our breath away. the quest,

the musical perfection is their top priority. when close, my goal is to play carnegie hall. it's a glue. the extraordinary challenge often appears very early. this estimate, i think i 1st started playing piano when i was to i started playing and composed to whole piece company at the cliche is the child prodigies. a lonely, with few friends, and i drilled to perfection. contact talk to i don't to cry under pressure not to shake under pressure that there are kids 567 years old who get incredible migraines, off to concerts. i did to god. oh so much miracle is there in highly talented children? are they born with these extraordinary abilities? we talked to former child prodigies as well as a human development researcher, a music psychologist and the music historian.

hey, jim install 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 her yet. and i can give plasma haunting the violin was a means to an end. i was good at it, i learned to play fairly quickly, alone and that of course i also worked hard, hama oh, his journey with the violin began at full. he is owned by the gale griffin, nice 2 sons, talent, and started teaching him. oh,

david took giant steps and gave his 1st solo concerts with an orchestra at the age of 9 license and you're 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 on, equally dedicated and equally wides. about how to support and to remote at 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 label to which a grammar phone for several albums. david has worked with stars like conductor claudio,

a battle to be met her and violet virtuoso. yahoo, d menu hin at the feel. feel like a burden to you. growing up on jayden 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 monument. i want infinity mata ordered a photo. would i deliver about? i one of those 3 is always then my slippery hand and empathy. what's it like to be a gifted child? can they still have a childhood? ah! in peter's hong kong, near berlin, miles and medics govern the families daily life. simona marcella is driving her

sons to piano and violin lessons to day. one of 7 lessons per week. she says she often gets judged mcbride's m. i, 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 some one 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 municipal court actually was gonna have nurturing her childrens talons is a full time job for this single mother. in berlin, concert pianist, elisa vetter, blue mina has been teaching medics and miles for about 4 years. the boys cannot imagine living without piano and violin. me, these are still 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 less or not on concrete, untrodden belief. awesome, released aspect of door politeness. 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 all his in a normal week, we practice a lot. we have rehearsals, sometimes concerts, we spend $34.00, sometimes 5 days at the university in belgium, target. and that when you happening in begun, 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 phillip, they've never known the kind of schooling that other children have. mine

a should side to which the way i described my time at school should photo is that i always stood out to find been busy and i only had to say half a sentence and everyone knew i was a bit different. i look here and do some descent unless anita 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 while high desert, yeah, 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 a competition. he hasn't one and has accumulated more than a 100 prices so far. as kind i never get to the point where i'm

completely happy with the way i play. it's a freebie. 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 at law school. i'm glad when he got warned, 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 himself. but his godfather told us he's under challenged. he needs activity and input for his brain warranty. so smart that he needs a difference to me lesson. and that's when music came in. at the age of 3, medics played his 1st melodies on the piano. it may even be, although there is no way to know yes for sure. that child prodigies in music have as a natural and our 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. oh and at 7 he played a concert at the prestigious mozart you music academy in salzburg, austria metrics and miles have been taken out of normal schooling. it's a decision that can actually be beneficial for musically gifted children. right now it won't grasp links vosta. no, he doesn't need to spend 6 hours at school if he can get it done in one or 2 i'd o, 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 opens item. and that also gives him enough time to prepare for concent site and competition slide. since he doesn't have to spend as much time in school,

because site off on pot for the short of 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 david, 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 guy describes, among other things, a childhood without children o advice and also i thought i was definitely an outsider who, here, and i was a child in an adult profession kind. it's not usually

a profession done by kids itself. he'd say if it were, it would be called child labor. ah, when it is my that of course he can't call it that up in the form, 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 at the intend on. it says at our ppd, alyssa vaccine does. i'm and you never wanted to break away well with of or fun it from. why my does it wouldn't been. why didn't even know i was in something you could break out of had the can fog light. i had no comparison. if it hasn't got high 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 you there. david kept exceeding audience expectations, but that didn't save him from his father's criticism. that as if he get off

clinic, 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. my direct of going on 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 garza 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 at my labor, he made my life possible. nicholas mock of the heart all in a hard way of em, but mozart didn't have it any easier. once nodded paganini,

lice i got in comparison, i was probably handled with kid gloves, which i know they were beaten black and blue. until i'm pretty sure about that customer. there was not every gifted musician experienced as a childhood of 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 this stick that in the middle of the people were more religious in the 18th century and associated something divine. but the concept of these miracle children, that sentiment is probably a bit lost on us nowadays. although the term miracle is still used to describe them . and i think it 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 belief on there is a letter from leopold mozart when he basically says that a miracle had taken place in south spoke with him 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, i say gleiss am i not? was a casual highlander of the of it is in saigon for i listen i'm. it's like instagram the own, it was all fake. even back in the 18th century form, he just used these stories to fill the newspapers, to create some vas as creating an image that to the absolutely, ah, could the whole 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 this one was guns passingly apartment. there is no doubt that leopold mozart was a shrewd businessman. he wrote somewhere and we must do this now because in 2 years time this ora will be gone. it was the old mozart gets, the more his child prodigy status will fade and leopold mozart knew that he had to act quickly. schnell again, vulcan 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 gifts 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, a conductor, daniel, baron boy,

maiden name to himself in childhood. both is 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 from, 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 some within. but once you have a loop behind the scenes and you know how much work goes into it, it doesn't seem like a miracle at all that they became a child prodigy, one that can help me for the envelope. but how exactly can we define a prodigy? and is this such a thing? is natural talent? can any chance become musical wanda? ah, it's just not true. you can take any child in this and work hard enough at it. you

could use the highest levels of achievement. it just is not true. interestingly, a child i q plays little to no roman explaining musical talent, professor feldman to find some musical prodigy to 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. kin needs to have the potential to achieve outstanding things. however, in order for it to happen, the environment needs to be chest right. either if it's on this definition of

gifted, 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 license. 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 highly and or is solar the only option? only solo. only solo. and if that doesn't work out within the santa would, 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 as sophie 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 like i've been it doesn't really matter how long you get in that profession see 10 years or 50 plus 50 or up fly home from my parents fully supported, answer the right from the start, and at any cost, ah, in on some thought, isn't 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 any things age. our role is to make sure that she has all the opportunities and can follow the path. she wants to take him to see the movie. and a sophie motto was just 13 years old when conductor herbert from carryon discovered her, the coming, her mentor, the beginning of a fairy tale, korea that continues to this day without the initial support of her parents. none of this might ever have happened. the choke could 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 into promoting his talented. 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 is 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 would, 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. i have 2 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 for 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 believed that child will have the best opportunity for the simple mother caring for not one but 2 highly talented sons means around the clock support. ah, haven't others done guy? yeah, no lessons, violin lesson is singing lessons, composition lessons, and all the wrestling home one day. you have to go and get him. you though, the next you have to go get a violin. think you have to pay half the concepts and competitions. it's a lot to do. what does that leave any time for you?

like no time for me, 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's happening will be on the big stage as soon enough happening club, my host, my goal is to play carnegie hall to school. 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. oh, but was this, 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 grew up this mark to day as a young adult. let's johan is sure. one thing being a pianist is her clean. it makes you an inclusion music with the wounds because it's what i enjoyed. we could still express myself. it's a kind of language without word disorder finished with david as a mother,

i don't support my children in what they do. that's disruptive, 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, they have been each dick could you am i to criticize how my parents raised me then that's good when it's made my adult life so much easier isn't this leaned out it's essentially an ethical question either with hog would you rather have a relaxed childhood only to struggle through the rest of life afterwards and fun says what are lacking or do you say ok, maybe my childhood wasn't ideal, but life got easy afterwards because of it. think that you answer me that either by dr aster the sleep none of their life. but unfortunately, dude, us is good, it is a child, you can't consciously make that kind of decision on your own was aligned me perfectly

true, but i also can't look back and say was the wrong decision. i just can't 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 finish the the best way to navigate a child's upbringing and education like this 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's 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 medic from miles have their time off time where they can be kids like the others aren't on one foot. shakes that 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 hasn't always been easy, but i wouldn't change a single moment because it put me here today. ah ah, ah ah ah,

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