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What must it be like to start composing music at age two and create an opera at age ten as Samuel Barber did? Or to go deaf at age eight and yet become a world-renowned percussionist as Evelyn Glennie has? This book is a celebration of the remarkable lives of 44 musical prodigies from the 18th century to the present, including the amazing stories of Mozart and Paganini, Andres Segovia and Samuel Barber, Van Cliburn and Ruggiero Ricci and Jacqueline du Pre and Yo-Yo Ma, to name only a few. The author explores early family life, first teachers, the importance of peers and the inevitable struggles for independence and acceptance as an adult musician.
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Glenn Gould at thirteen, with his dog, Nicky (Sir Nickolson of Garelocheed), Toronto, 1946. Photograph by Gordon W. Powley. By permission of the Estate of Glenn Gould.
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Musical Prodigies
Perilous Journeys, Remarkable Lives
By Claude Kenneson
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Copyright 1998 by Amadeus Press (an imprint of Timber Press, Inc.)
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, photographs are from the author's collection.
AMADEUS PRESS The Haseltine Building 133 SW Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204 USA
Printed in Hong Kong
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kenneson, Claude. Musical prodigies : perilous journeys, remarkable lives/by Claude Kenneson p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-57467-046-8 1. Child musicians. 2. Gifted children. 3. MusiciansBiography. I. Title. ML81.K46 1999 780.879dc21 98-28636 CIP
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To Horace Britt (18811971)
Genial and dimpling, looking for all the world like an instrumental Peter Pan who would never consent to grow up, Horace Britt played the Saint-Sans concerto, played it with a masterly urbanity and an irreproachable technique. Redfern Mason San Francisco Examiner 17 March 1928
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CONTENTS
Foreword
by Van Cliburn
9
Preface
11
Prologue
A Personal View
17
Reader's Guide
34
Part One: The Grand Tradition
One The Miracle from Salzburg: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
51
Two High Venture: Niccol Paganini
66
Three A Girl from Leipzig: Clara Schumann
77
Four El Nio del Tost: Pablo Casals
91
Five A Family Portrait: The Britts and the Koutzens
103
Six California Crossroads: Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Feuermann, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Artur Rubinstein
131
Seven Midcentury Keyboard Masters: Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, and Van Cliburn
159
Eight Discovery: Competitions and Management
188
Nine Warsaw, 1935: The First International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
199
Ten Virtuosos of the Twenties and Thirties from A to Z: Aldo Parisot, Isaac Stern, Jnos Starker, Ruggiero Ricci, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yehudi Menuhin, and Zara Nelsova
217
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Part Two: The Innovators
Eleven Against All Odds: Andrs Segovia, Georges Barrre, William Primrose, and Evelyn Glennie
251
Twelve Pocket Toscaninis: Pierino Gamba, Joseph Alfidi, and Lorin Maazel
277
Thirteen The Rose Tree, An Opera: Samuel Barber
285
Fourteen The Spirit of the Gypsy: Kat Havas
295
Fifteen Bass Is Beautiful: Gary Karr
307
Sixteen Born for the Cello: Jacqueline du Pr and Yo-Yo Ma
317
Epilogue a Process of Prodigy
by Bejun Mehta
331
Notes
353
Selected Bibliography
367
Index
371
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FOREWORD
The twentieth century has produced many startling scientific observations of children and their creative aptitudes. When asked about their future goals and ambitions, many small children will offer answers exhibiting extraordinary vision, remarkable intuition, and unusual prescience. Such children are old in the most wonderful sense. They are amazingly aware of the world at an early age. In addition to their incredible thirst for knowledge, they often have the ability to discern the difference between truth and faade. The possible peril that exceptional children face is that their natural wonder and oldness are in danger of being dashed by time and improper guardianship.
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