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UNIT 4
Lesson 13
Exercise 1.3
Welcome back to True Stories from History.
With me is
Mr. Richards of the National Music School.
Richards, everyone knows that
the young Mozart was a talented child.
But what does that mean exactly?
Well,to give you an idea,
by the time he was six years old,
Mozart could already play the keyboard
and the violin.
And he could read a piece of music
just one time and play it immediately.
And he could invent pieces of music
in the style of famous composers.
Could he write music at an early age as well?
Yes, he could.
He was amazing.
When he was six years old
he wrote five short piano pieces that
people still play today.
He wrote music for the violin when he was seven
a long piece of music at the age of eight and
even a comic opera at the age of twelve.
When he was fourteen,
he went for a performance in Rome.
This is a difficult piece
for many different voices.
We don't know how he did it,
but that same night
he wrote down the whole piece from memory.
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