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Few things in life are as frustrating as being constantly reminded of your past glories and current inability to reproduce those successes. Yet this is what Mozart had to endure for much of his adult life, mainly from his father but also from those around him. In ....

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.... The appeal of the child prodigy cuts across all human divides and is clearly universal. That is because the purity and innocence of the young child is in contrast with the complications of adult life. A baby is pure and untouched by the vulgarity and coarseness of everyday life. Sexual naivete, especially, is looked upon as endearing since sex is one of the great complications of life. A young child is removed from most aspects of providing, so he can usually concentrate completely on his art, something older artists cannot afford to do. This belief, "that there only doing it for the love of…" remains on of the most important tenets of the etern ....