World’s youngest composers
Wolfgang Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or according to his full baptismal name,
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born on January
27, 1756 and lived until December 5, 1791. He was a prolific and
influential composer of the Classical era supposed to have composed
music from the age of 4 years. On May 13, 1967, Mozarts production of
“Apollo and Hyacinthus”, a musical in three acts was performed when
Mozart was just 11 years.
  He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of
symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He
is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Mozart
showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg.
Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of
five and performed before European royalty; at 17 he was engaged as a
court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of
a better position, always composing abundantly.
While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg
position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but
little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed
many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and the
Requiem. The circumstances of his early death have been much
mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance
and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with
the dark and passionate—the whole informed by a vision of humanity
“redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the
absolute.”
Adám Lörincz
 Adám Lörincz was born in Hungary on June 1, 1988. He was aged 14
years 76 days when his 92-minute musical, Star of the King was performed
on August 16, 2002 in Szekesfehervar, Hungary.
On August 16th at the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death a new
Hungarian musical the ’Star of the King’ has been brought on in
Székesfehérvár. The curiosity of the musical is that its composer is a
14 year-old pupil Adam Lorincz, to whom was awarded a Guinness
certificate for the realisation of the idea of the world’s largest
keyboard ensemble.
The musical ‘Star Of The King’ has been performed sold-out in the
Pelikan Udvar, the open-air stage of the city with 500 chairs on August
16 and the following two evenings. The musical has more than thirty
characters who involved the audience in dancing rock and roll at the end
of the piece too.
Emily Bear
Emily Bear was born August 30, 2001 and she is a modern-age pianist
and composer from Rockford, Illinois.
When Bear was a year old she already could sing lullabies back in
perfect pitch. When she was 2 years, her grandmother recognized her
talent at the piano. Bear began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the
Music Institute of Chicago. Within 4 years she was enrolled for study of
classical music at the Winnetka campus. Besides her extraordinary talent
at the piano, Bear started to compose her own music at the age of three.
She has already composed more than 120 pieces.
For her piece Northern Lights she won the ASCAP Foundation Morton
Gould Young Composer Award for composers under 18 years of age. She also
won the Rockford Area Music Industry Award (RAMI). Pianist Emily Bear
has only been playing piano for three years, but at just eight years,
her accomplishments are inspiring and her talent is breathtaking.
Classical, jazz and boogie come naturally to her. She performs a
large list of classics and standards, and also composes her own magical
songs. When she was 6, and played a complete Mozart concerto from memory
with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. She released Five Years
Wise in 2007, The Love In Us and Once Upon A Wish in 2008 and Always
True last year.
Emily was the youngest solo performer in the history of the Ravinia
Festival, has performed with many well known musicians, appeared on “The
Ellen DeGeneres Show” five times and performed at the White House for
President Bush. Emily and her family are dedicated to using her talent
to help and inspire others. Giving and charity are very important to
Emily and a portion of the proceeds from all CD sales are donated to
charity foundations. |
