Prodigy Collection

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, statue as a boy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791), Austrian composer and musician, seen here in the form of a statue, as a boy with a violin and bow

Yehudi Menuhin aged 12
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM KBE (22 April 1916 12 March 1999), American-born violinist and conductor, who spent most of his performing career in Britain

Cyril Scott
CYRIL SCOTT musical prodigy, pianist and composer, also poet, painter and philosopher, defender of homeopathy and occultist. His music was very avant-garde. Date: 1879 - 1970

Julie Andrews with mother and step-father, Starlight Roof
Julie Andrews, aged 12, photographed at home with her mother Barbara at the piano and her step-father, at the time she was appearing in Starlight Roof at the London Hippodrome

Three year old Spanish pianist
Spanish three year old, pianist is Pepito Rodriguez Ariola (14th December 1896- 24th October 1954). He was a child prodigy

Jeanne Douste, Pianist and musical prodigy, studio portrait
Jeanne Douste, Pianist and musical prodigy (1892-?). Studio portrait, wearing pleated lace bodice. Douste began her musical career in London from around 5 years of age

Nigel Short, champion British chess player and Grandmaster
Nigel David Short (b 1965), champion British chess player who became a Grandmaster at the age of 19. He was a chess prodigy, first attracting media attention at the age of 10. Date: circa 1970s

PRODIGY : HEINECKEN
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HEINECKEN (1721 - 1725), known as The Infant of Lubeck, had mathematical and memory gifts, wide knowledge of history and geography, and predicted his own death at 4

SINGER - LITTLE GIRL
LE PETIT PRODIGE A young girl is the wonder of her doting family Date: circa 1848

Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, at the age of 12
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. Seen here at the age of 12, writing out some calculations on the floor

Prodigy : Baretier
Johann Philip BARATIER, child prodigy born at Schwabach, near Nuremberg, Germany, depicted at the age of 11. Date: 1721 - 1740

Michael Rophino Lacy
MICHAEL ROPHINO LACY Spanish-born musical prodigy, violinist and composer Date: 1795 - 1867

George Bidder(1806-1878), engineer and mathematical prodigy

William Crotch (1775-1847) musical prodigy, depicted here at age 4

Brahm Van Den Berg
BRAHM VAN DEN BERG Belgian child musical prodigy, from Antwerp Date: 1878 - ?

Scottish Writer and Child Prodigy Marjorie Fleming
Marjorie Fleming - Pet Marjorie Scottish writer and child prodigy. Date: circa 1810s

A talented performer
A very little boy plays a grand piano from a raised piano stool. Two other small children look on in wonder. Date: 1875

The Steindel Quartet
A musical quartet consisting of M. Bratche and three brothers named Steindel, whose ages vary from eight to twelve, creating much interest in Germany in 1904. Date: 1904

William Thirlwall
WILLIAM THIRLWALL Nottingham-born musical prodigy who was singing at age one, played the violin at four, appeared in concerts at eight... etc. Date: 1833 - ?

Willie Pape
WILLIE PAPE American pianist, child prodigy from Mobile, visited England 1863. Date: 1850 - ?

Pedro Duca Di Ossone
PEDRO GIRON duca di OSSONE vicere (viceroy) of Naples, described as a prodigy of good government. Date: 1571 - 1624

Max Darewski - child prodigy, composer, conductor, pianist
Max Darewski (1894-1929) - child prodigy, composer, conductor and pianist Date: circa 1910s

Florizel von Reuter, composer, violinist and psychic medium
Florizel von Reuter (1890-1985), child prodigy, composer, violinist and psychic medium. Date: circa 1906

Arthur Napoleon
ARTHUR NAPOLEON Portuguese musical prodigy, who in his eighth year impressed Berlioz at Paris, delighting London audiences the following year. Date: CIRCA 1853

Jedidiah Buxton - 2
JEDIDIAH BUXTON Illiterate calculating prodigy. Date: 1707 - 1772

Jedidiah Buxton - 1
JEDIDIAH BUXTON Illiterate calculating prodigy. Date: 1707 - 1772

Theodosia Burr
THEODOSIA (nee BURR) ALSTON daughter of Aaron Burr, child prodigy, wife of governor Joseph Alston, lost at sea in mysterious circumstances while on way to visit her father. Date: 1783 - 1813

George Bidder (Older)
GEORGE PARKER BIDDER Child prodigy who grew up to be a successful engineer. Date: 1806 - 1878

Cover design for Fiocco violin and piano duets
Cover design for a book of ten violin and piano pieces by the 18th century Belgian (Flemish) composer and violinist Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703-1741), arranged by Arthur Bent and Norman O Neill

Max Darewski, musical prodigy
Maximillian Arnold (Max) Darewski (1894-1929), a musical prodigy who composed, conducted and played the piano. Seen here as a teenager, in coat and hat, carrying a music case

Moritz Lutzen, musical prodigy
Moritz Lutzen, a musical boy prodigy -- he composed, conducted and played the piano. His later career seemed to focus mainly on the composition of popular songs

Pierino Gamba (b. c.1937) child prodigy who was conducting orchestras from an early age and went on to be a famous conductor

Musical Prodigy
The infant Lyra and her harp

Samuel Wesley
SAMUEL WESLEY (son of Charles, nephew of John) musician : child prodigy who wrote part of an oratorio at age 8, published at age 11, said to be finest organist of his day

Jacques Inaudi
GIACOMO INAUDI Italian mathematical prodigy, on stage at Paris

Florizel Von Reuter
FLORIZEL VON REUTER Austrian musician as a young boy, playing the violin

Franz Vecsey / Postcard
FRANZ VON VECSEY Young violinist in 1905

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 1 / 1821
RICHARD WAGNER German composer as a boy, in 1821: his parents listen as he plays his first compositions Date: 1813 - 1883

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