Virtuosity at age 5. While Mozart composed his first works at age 4, young Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani plays brilliantly despite being too small to reach the peddles on the piano. Alberto is wowing the world. Here he is playing Mozart Piano Sonata No 16 in C major.
Pretty phenomenal. Here’s a 12 yr old ripping apart Eruption by Eddie Van Halen, who took Les Paul’s style and brought it higher than the clouds. Oddly, Eddie never played the guitar of the man from whom he developed his style.
Thanks for the link. My son’s learning piano now and has a pretty good knack for it. My house sounds like a Lexus commercial with all the classical practice. I showed him this as inspiration.
That boy is phenomenal. I can’t believe how young kids can pick this stuff up.
I attended elementary school in Burlingame, CA, and I have great affection for the Peninsula area due entirely to a series of wonderful teachers. It was there in California where I was subjected intensely to classical music, and before I was ten years old, I had great familiarity with music of the great Masters. Not a days passes in my life when I do not listen to either Mozart or Beethoven.
If all mankind disappeared from the earth, and future beings evaluated the most sublime creations of humanity, the one that in my opinion that would stand out as mankind’s greatest triumph would be music. Incredibly, in Pensacola, we have a fine symphonic orchestra which performs at the gorgeous Saenger Theater built in 1925 and has been completely restored to its past glory. See photo below:
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I love those old theaters. I go to these smaller ones quite a bit, but they’re usually filled with modern rock bands these days. My idea of a good time.
But…you don’t know music. You know a single genre that is outdated by 250 years, it appears. 4 yr olds know more about music than you do, from what you’ve stated prior.
Mozart will never be “outdated.”
Weak. You don’t know shit about music, peruke. Stick to what you’re good at…being racist, defending murderers and pedophiles
In the world of music, Mozart has no peer. In studies of genius in history, Mozart tops the list with highest estimated I.Q. of any born before him or after… Some even advance the suggestion that his music existed as an eternal form of beauty and was discovered by Mozart rather than invented. “The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it-that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.” A truly profound thought.
Comparing Mozart with contemporary music is the height of crassness.
These guys on the left have become completely unbearable. They can’t talk without demeaning characters, hurling insults, and acting outraged.
It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s exhausting.
Thanks for admitting I’m not on the left. 
(I don’t get the point of shitting on bikki about music either.)
You really want me to list posts from you and Skeeter? Really? Do we need to do this AGAIN to show your hypocrisy?
But, you don’t know anything about contemporary music. You, literally, have no information for the statements you’re making…as per usual
Warden wrote: “But, you don’t know anything about contemporary music. You, literally, have no information for the statements you’re making…as per usual.”
Admittedly, I haven’t devoted much listening time to contemporary music, but incredibly I was once a teenager who developed a fondness for early rock and roll music. I am a huge fan of Sam Cooke who tragically left this world too soon, Elvis, Ray Charles, the Beatles, classic country, Mexican rachero music, Mexican rock, and more recently Santana. My favorite song of all times is Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria. I also am very fond of Blue Moon sung by Ella Fitzgerald which has marvelous lyrics and is extraordinarily compelling. The doo wop version was my 1961 high school song. Oddly, I dislike most jazz, because I dislike improvised, dissonant horn sounds, but curiously, I find Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess to be a masterpiece. I spend a lot of time in New Orleans, but I choose to listen to blues rather raucous jazz. Watching the movie The Sting, I became a fan of Rag Time, a truly American musical invention reigned over by Scott Joplin, who is another who lived far too short of a life. I like Blue Grass as well.
I despise rap music and believe it would make fine theme music for the everlasting punishment program of Hell.
All in all, Warden, comparing Mozart with contemporary music is like comparing gold to copper. BTW, listening to Baroque music, Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi, especially the largo movements together with rhythmic breathing can make you smarter and enable you to learn faster. It will enable you to write less offensive posts and perhaps like me you’ll ascend to being a better person. To this end, put on your reading list: Mircea Eliade’s Yoga Immortality and Freedom and Cyril Scott’s Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages.
I won’t speak for Skeeter but in my case I am usually the one returning fire after being accosted all day long by you mutants.
Another truly American invention.
Outside of Trump, I’ve never actually met anyone who denies any responsibility for literally anything they do, before. I’ve met 3-4 yr olds who do it, but not as much as you do.
Do you teach you kids to be without any responsibility, morality, integrity as well?
This entire comment is not only wrong but just reiterates my point about how you’ve doubled down on moralizing. It’s exhausting. It’s untrue. It’s weak.
Ironically, but par for the course, he writes this literally right after he is shown his hypocrisy and then tries to blame someone else for it…again. By far, the weakest on this board, one of the weakest people I’ve ever come in contact with, actually. I’ve never actually met a grown person who abandoned any and all responsibility as much as GSC.
Not surprised you chose Scott, being that he was an avid occultist who didn’t believe in basic science.
Also, not surprised by this one…who was an avowed supporter for the Iron Guard, a Christian fascist political organization, rampant antisemitism, and support for Nazi Germany during WWII. Wasn’t he exiled out of Romania after WWII due to his Iron Guard connections and propaganda?
It would be curious that those two are the ones you chose, but you always do that…I just don’t always respond. Nearly every reference like that you list has some link with fascism.
It is, however, adorable you consider ragtime…from the 20s…as contemporary music.
I will say, Sam Cooke is in my top 5 all time.