Everybody
knows Amadeus Mozart, the world’s most famous
child piano prodigy. He was a composer, pianist, and
performer – a total musician. He was born in
Salzburg, Austria but nobody really knows where he
is buried. For a famous persona, it is quite odd that
everybody would know him and his music but not where
he was buried.
Even
his real name is not that popular. People know him
as Amadeus but few knew he was born Johan Chrysostom
Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart. And that his father called
him Woferl.
As
a child, Mozart was very popular. That was of course,
he was doing things unusual for little children. While
everyone else was having fun playing, Mozart was already
composing, performing and touring for concerts. His
father was always behind him.
Some
really amazing stories about Mozart included about
him hearing the “oink” of a pig and he
recognized as G-sharp. When somebody duplicated the
tune on a piano, it was indeed G-sharp. And he was
only two years old at the time!
He
also kept interfering with his sister’s piano
lessons at the age of three and that was when his
father knew he wanted lessons too. But it wasn’t
until he was four years old when he finally got formal
lessons. But at that time, he could already learn
a minuet within thirty minutes! Who wouldn’t
be amazed?
The
child prodigy was on the roll! At the age of six,
while performing, nobody knows but he must have found
his audience getting bored that he thought of performing
a trick. He had the entire keyboard covered with a
cloth so he could not see the keys and still played
music perfectly. He was still indeed a child having
fun at that time.
Mozart
had penchant for fun and jokes. He once composed a
piano piece that required the player to use not only
both hands but the nose as well to hit all the correct
notes. History wrote that he was not as successful
as a grown up compared to being a child prodigy. As
he grew older, less people took notice of him and
fewer people came to his performances. But he was
a brilliant musician. It was that told he suffered
many disappointments and hardships. He didn’t
even have a stable job when he got married and that
he died really poor. Still his music bore humor and
cheerfulness and vigor. His music spoke of life, love
and laughter. It must have been his view of life despite
the disappointments and tragedies.
All
in all, Mozart didn’t only leave great music
but a great lesson too: that no matter how difficult
life is, there is always room for smiles, laughter
and fun.
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