Originally Posted by Bass Thumper
“Well, what about Mozart? I hear he was composing symphonies at the age of four! And if he was practicing forty hours a week since the day he was born, that doesn’t make ten thousand hours.”

Well, he was eight at the time:

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Many years later, Nannerl described the scene as their father lay dangerously ill: “In order to occupy himself, Mozart composed his first symphony with all the instruments of the orchestra, especially trumpets and kettledrums. I had to transcribe it as I sat at his side. While he composed and I copied he said to me, ‘Remind me to give the horn something worthwhile to do!’” The work later known as Symphony no. 1 in E-flat, K. 16, might be this piece, but probably not—that symphony was indeed written in London, but it does not have trumpets and drums. In any case, after his first try, Wolfgang started turning out symphonies for small orchestra designed for his and Nannerl’s London concerts.

From Mozart: The Reign of Love by Jan Swafford

Plus, his father was a professional musician, and was parading his children around Europe as musical freaks prodigies once he had trained them.

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