Seymour Bernstein Plays Mozart's First Composition (Written At Age 4)
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Seymour Bernstein performs the first piece Mozart ever wrote at the age of 4.
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Don't forget how his father helps him teaching. He would be a fantastic teacher who guided Mozart without cut his natural talent.
I think Leopold had a lot to work with. which made it easy
Do not want to detract from Mozart's prodigial status, but much of his early music was heavily mentored. But then that was how he learnt to become the great composer known today. Moreover, most of the great composers were heavily mentored at one time.
Cut what?
My dad was Salieri's dad - I ended up playing electric guitar. I must take up piano now the miserable git is dead!
@@PrinceWesterburg Should've served a fish dish!
My niece is almost 4. I can't even imagine such a small child, even just 1 year older, playing that let alone composing it.
For a man of his age he plays with such nuance and sensitivity. Both aspiring and established pianists could learn a lot from him.
He's an old shit.
Seymour plays it soooo gently, almost like a lullaby, he is an inspiration to young budding musicians 🥰
An old living legend's love and respect for a 4 year old genius. Wonderful!
I am a Bach man through and through, but I think Mozart would have been grateful to have heard this wise old man play his first tune...so wisely...
Listen at Fuges from Mozart. And you will be astonished.
WHY BACH ?
@@vanjavanja3905 Cause he's the best!
@@StrawberryLegacy DID YOU TRINK TO MUCH COCA COLA ?
@@vanjavanja3905Are you German? Seeing as your auto correct seems to have turned drink into trink. I'll take the chance: Ich trinke eigentlich nie Coca Cola. Du wohl schon oder warum schreist du so? Bzw. meine eigentliche Frage lautet ja, was hast du gegen Bach?
The counterpoint is mind-blowing for a 4 year old composition honestly!
This is fake. Mozart was 5 or 6 years old when he written this. but it's still great!
Mozart likely didn’t write this with his own hand remember though. He likely came up with melody and direction of the piece and his father wrote it down and did the rest
@@lochlanfitzgerald7719 Almost 100% surely. But people want their gods so they can feel like the universe has more meaning.
@@AlkoMH Yeah, some people are really just very dumb. I mean, take yourself for example. You can't do basic arithmetic such as adding to fractions much less calculus or topology but you think you are a genius. You can't even understand a fugue much less write one but somehow you know exactly that Mozart at 4 yr old could write a complete two part form piece with symmetric periods using half an deceptive cadences because you are a genius. I mean, you also know Santa Claus exists because you are a genius too. I bet you have taught kids 2 yr old how to write 8 part counterpoint in the hypomixolydian mode because, well, you are a genius.
Yes, there are a ton of imbeciles out in the world that think they have it all figured out but luckily you are a pure genius and actually have it all figured out.
No matter at what age he composed this, he died to early.
All I could think while listening to this was: “Mozart has always been Mozart”. What a genius.
At 4 years old, Mozart's writing this incredible minuet. I'm 4 years old just learning not to shat my pants.
Maybe Mozart was also learning how to not shit his pants at that age. Who’s to say?
an we still fail even to not do THAT!
if you are 4 years old and able to write here, you are just as talented as Mozart.
Kind of crazy how strongly it resembles his later work. Obviously there are a lot of key differences between this piece and the music he wrote as an adult, but the style he would eventually become known for is absolutely visible here.
Seymour Bernstein (born April 24, 1927) is an American pianist, composer, and teacher. He is the subject of the documentary Seymour: An Introduction directed by the actor Ethan Hawke. Hawke describes Bernstein as a mentor figure. Bernstein is a mensch of the highest order and an American treasure.
Mozart was a genius and thankyou Seymour for playing so sweetly.
Seymour played this with such finesse, grace and beauty, he really made it come to life!
What an experience! If ‘diaphanous’ can properly be used for sound,
this is the most supremely diaphanous, pellucid gift of soul. That a
master pianist in his 90s so ineffably brings forth the essence, the
breath, of 4 year old Mozart, is an experience of hushed and
awesome joy. What a gift!!
Beautifully said. Thank you.
Right. I'm off to look up diaphanous and pellucid.
@@philb4462 she’s just showing off with some highfalutin jargon when ‘translucent’ would have served her perfectly well!
@@rezashia3135 Right. I'm off to look up translucent.
I actually know what translucent means but I thought it was to do with visuals, not audio.
From the moment mozart could hear, he remembered everything. Thats why he could play and eventually write a piece like this. He heard his dad and sister play for hours and he had a superior memory. Photographic memory for the music world. That was one of his secrets and talents.
Thank you Seymour! What a delicate, sincere performance! I’ve listened to this piece so many times, but I am moved having listened to it executed with so much care.
I love the calm and the way he zones out. Such soul and skill.
Every musical genius always talks about mozart in awe. That tells you how loved and respected he is by the greats
This isn't Mozart's first work. His first composition is the Andante for Keyboard in C major, K. 1a. This is the Minuet in G major, K. 1e, ergo he wrote it later on.
If he was 4 then of course Leopold helped him and guided him
Also he said "this piece was learned"
How much later?
@@vhollund Leopold transcribed Wolfgang's playing onto paper, and helped him with corrections
Very pleased to read and accept a second opinion, thank you.
There is huge difference in my execution and this masters execution. Let me go back and study it again.
His playing is so delicate
This music moves like stardust through air. Such galant playing.
We are learning and enjoying these videos so much! Thank you for posting them.
What a total genius Mozart was ….. spell bounding
Thank you Seymour, I was so inspired ❤ by your playing of this beautiful piece I went and found it and played it. I haven’t been able to play for weeks (grief for my late mom). Today I was because of you. ❤
Beautifully played!
Wolfgangerl und Nannerl 😍 thank you Master Bernstein
Thank you for revealing the earliest work of the enchanted child.
Stunning.
What's interesting is that it shows Mozart had somehow instinctively been given a gift of music that cannot be learned. You can see in this piece his ability to imagine and hear contrapuntal lines. Also interesting is the use of rhythm in the melody line, combing triplets with tuplets, syncopation across the bar lines and the use of anacrusis. Absolutely stunning.
This is false. Mozart learned to compose by enormous amounts of hard work and perseverance, and complained in his own letters about people who thought his skill was the result of a prodigous talent while ignoring the fact that he worked incredibly hard to tap into this potential he had in him. He definetely learned his trade and the suggestion that he didn't is just laughable, and at the same contrary to statements by Mozart himself. What doesn't help is that the famous film Amadeus, portrayed him as a lunatic (and worse, his friend Salieri as a murderer). A lot of the public perception of Mozart is based on fiction. He was a highly disciplined intellectual who had a very thorough and methodical education and who was taught how to compose by imitating others, including re-arranging several existing works into piano concertos and imitating the stylistic elements of the great composers of his day.
@@classicallpvault8251 yea. Every genius claims that it was their hard work more than their genius. It was. But they are also a genius.
@@classicallpvault8251 it's not just hard work alone that produces miracle, aPint of genius is necessary, maybe like Strawinsky said ninety present Transpiration and tenpecent inspiration:)
@@classicallpvault8251 I agree with what you are saying but the hard fact of the matter is that every other composer of his time worked just as hard, composed almost as much (some more), but Mozart's music is the music that stands out. Mozart learned EVERYTHING, but more than anything, his genius actually lies in his ability to put all those ideas together along with creating memorable melodies. Mozart even complained about composers of his time having little counterpoint, or no chromatics, and when one goes and listens to those composers, one can hear what he means: so much of the classical period music has some good ideas, but lacks a driving force, or interesting juxtapositions. And he was a boy genius who could do all that, if only at a basic level, where other composers didn't learn that until later years (probably). Some people just are more talented than others, or another way of putting it is, they have a natural feel for the field they work within. Mozart had that natural feel, but yes, he also copied, imitated, even ripped-off others, but through all that learning and hard work, his natural talent was able to rise higher than anyone else's.
It's a mixture of genius with early training. I believe there is no such thing as a "musical genius", only people who are born with a higher ability to recognize patterns, in this case in sound (perhaps a higher IQ or better memory?). Mozart had that and his father exploited it at an early age which resulted in this. We should also remind ourselves of the musical brain at that time, which didn't have as many distractions as today's - Mozart only knew one kind of music which was the one he was going to write, and this also helped. This aside, the voice leading is indeed pretty impressive for a child's first composition. Also, he was 5-6, not four when he wrote this, and this is not his actual first of all compositions. This was his actual first composition that we know of, which he wrote at the age of five th-cam.com/video/0Yao9rOmQaE/w-d-xo.html
Not a single out of place. What a tremendous prodigy!
There's so much more to that little piece...its FORM and length are completely correct for the minuet as it was danced at that time--the kid comprehended that, knew the dance's steps and position changes, and where the key changes should go (never mind recognized HOW to tastefully modulate in the style of his day). The mirroring of motifs from section to section...how does an almost-5-year-old work that out in his mind so clearly?!? And then write it down legibly for anybody to play and dance to? GRACE.
Algorithm recommended this and I have to say I really like this interpretation. Many people play it much to fast.
There seems to be a Tempo problem with modern classical. These guys were writing for people in a Court, not Pro Musicians. Imagine embarrassing the King of Hapsburg with a piece that was too complex and fast for him to play.
He write some Fast stuff but I think most of it is played like Seymour did above, with Grace and care.
Almost like learning speed.
(I would say Mozart was Five when he wrote this, a few days before a birthday can go either way, but I bet Mozart was 4 1/2 for a few months leading up to this fifth birthday).
Cheers! 🍁
@@streamofconsciousness5826 Yet it seems people were playing Beethoven way too slow until people like Gardiner and Nottingham corrected the tempi.
That’s lovely
Love and enjoy Mr. Seymour Bernsteins's performance! 🥰🥰😍😍👏👏👍👍 This piece also inspired me to recreate to Rea Piano version,.
its quite impressive how he already has his own style at 4
What's most surprising is how well "finished" this piece sounds. It could be a study, a piece for children or even a slow part from a bigger piece composed by some grown professional composer. The piece is also in no place "boring" and even rather intersting to follow and to listen to till the end.
Not surprising his father documented it sp precisely.
honestly, i am not a huge fan of Bernstein, but he plays this piece like no one other
( i have heard before)!
Just WOW.
Its hard to believe, Mozart is Legend
While Most of Us Hadn't Even Begun Kindergarten , Here Was The " Miraculous Mozart " At Four Years Old , ALREADY Composing A Very Mature Composition !!!....The Child Mozart Was The Definition of The Word PRODIGY !!!..
Yes let mozart and bach teach you. They are the masters of music
Officially Mozart was 4 but only three days before being 5. This means that one difference at this age level in interpretation, is that he was virtually 25% older! But I digress. Lovely rendition and the minds of many are well and truly boggled at the genius that was to develop into what we know today!
Even for age five that's pretty amazing, though it is a large difference in age when you're that young
And Mozart composed this music on a harpsichord. So lovely. So glad he is respected by music lovers,
That is exactly the first piano song I learned to play, along with other songs from the notebook of Nannerl, anotated by Leopold. Little Mozart was such a genius!.
It’s not a song lol
@@nasirferguson4098 Piano "sings" the melody if you look at it that way.
@@sagar1992 clever! But no haha😂😅
@@nasirferguson4098 Why so stupidly rude?
@@MrTrackman100 it’s not really rude I’d say, calling something by it’s correct name isn’t rude is it?
After watching this video, I saw more Bernstein
The presentation is very confusing : the piece we hear is the Minuet in G (K. 1e), written by Mozart at age five or six (we don't know for sure). However, the quote "Wolfgangerl learned [sic, not composed!] this piece between 9 and 9.30 on the evening of 24 January 1761, 3 days before his fifth birthday" refers to another piece, transcribed in the same book, a scherzo by Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777).
Hard to believe that a 4-year old composed that. I guess his father helped him with his first work.
No.
Well, he supplied the paper, the ink, the writing device(quill?), the desk, the chair, the house. OK kid, make magic. Daddy is watching.
Yes I suspect he would’ve been coached or mentored by papa leopald
I dont believe in fake history, impossible someone write song at 4 years old.
That's what I always thought when playing through these lovely early Mozart pieces (there are actually a lot more of these wonderful youth pieces).
I think that the melodic ideas indeed came from the little boy, but that his father helped him with the form/structure of these pieces.
There are very few moments in those pieces that feel a little awkward, as one would expect to see from a child of that age no matter how gifted the child is, but I would expect a lot more of these 'flaws'/imperfections, if these pieces were not at least 'cleaned up', extended, or 'corrected', etcetera by a professional musician like Mozart's father.
Anyway, they are great pieces, no matter what!
What a delight ! Mozart played as it should.
Mozart was a genius, but it can be hardly believed that Wolfgang composed this at age of four.
I wrote one of my first screenplays at four and could play twinkle on violin, so no it's not.
And the rest they say is history. Perfect.
A gift to all of us from God
This is better than any counterpoint I wrote in my 3 years of studying music in college
We all want to see more of Bernstein! 😂🤪
I love how you play itthen explain and read what the father said.
Ele toca com um sentimento único, que vai além da partitura!
Minuet and Trio in G Major: KV 1. Composed at age FIVE.
It's very magic fluteish
Fantastic and humbling !!
Hilarious how many people don't "belive" that Mozart could compose masterpieces while being 4yo. "Leopold helped him" they write. Yeah, pretty obvious, Wolfgang was unable to read and write alphabet. But he already knew the music he wanted to play and write. Leopold was a good musician, but he never wrote music pages such as this Minuetto, he just transcribed what his son played, and we should be thankful to him forever.
So this is K. listing ONE? The first one he wrote. I can tell it's Mozart and his style. Some parts are almost trills, but not quite. He was to write trills in his music later on. One of the greatest classical composers, second only to Bach himself. Wonderful
Technically, that's not Wolfgang's first composition. His first piece is K. 1a, which is in C major. This G major minuet and trio is now labeled as K. 1e
First composition is not the first note of the first little piece. For example if i play the third movement of the sonata op.1 written by someone, i am still playing his first composition
That's the first thing i thought too - this is indeed K1e, the Minuet in G. But the real first piece, K1a, is only 25 seconds long!
Wonder what Mozart would think if he could see people still playing this piece all these years later🥹❤️
Let’s thank his nanny for this lullaby
If someone prefers to think of humans as the highest intelligence in the universe, nobody is going to convince him otherwise. For most of us, however, there are some musicians whose compositions seem to be among the greatest arguments for the miracle of inspiration by some higher power.
Agreed, but not just music...it could be literature or anything else which shows some extra-terrestrial divinity.
I'd expect nothing less
It's mostly thirds but the kid was 4...so pretty good
Thanks, beautifully interpreted, especially when taking into account it was played by a nearly contemporary of Mozart himself:)
Isn't Allegro KV 1 in C Mozart's first piece? This is KV 3 if I'm not mistaken.
Of Mozart's spirit form, it is said that it went through the full cycle of material incarnations through millions of years until it reached the higher spiritual levels of existence where human incarnations were no longer involved, but that then, due to widespread war and chaos on a since gone galaxy, it returned to the material cycle of incarnations. And eventually it ended up on Earth, where it animated the spiritual line of prophets: Enoch, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jmmanuel (the so-called Jesus), Mohammed and Billy, but also other personalites like Galileo, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rasputin and others.
Imagine what he composed at 6?
Leopold was a great teacher. Mozart was a lucky prodigy.
...with guiding and coaching from his professional musician father. Also, taking a lead (mimic) from his older sister. I'm not taking anything away from his talent, genius, gift by stating that. Music was the family business and their entire lives directly revolved around it. It was all he knew. If his family were farmers he would have advanced knowledge of animals at four years old. Again, I'm not subtracting anything from his legacy by saying this.
I'm sorry, but I beg to differ. Seymour himself read it - Wolfgang LEARNED this piece. To learn doesn't mean to create/write it himself.
Leopold wrote all sorts of pieces into Nannerls Notenbuch, for Nannerl and Wolfgang to learn and practise. This piece may very well be from Leopold himself.
He stated only that Wolfgang learned to play it in half an hour of time. No more no less.
The majority of musicians will never be able to compose such beautiful music, even after dozens years of practice and study.
Дедушка милый дедушка ...
He's really able to bring everything out of this piece, before I watched this I always played through it way too fast
How this piece is called? Thank you!
So this is what the deep galaxy sounds like.
WOW, at age 4?! At age 4 I was still trying to figure out where I was♪♫♪
I'd like to think little Wolfgang composed this entirely himself at age 4,
but it seems almost impossible and unparalleled that he could have.
Almost certainly there was some input from others.
The quote of Leopold that Bernstein reads says Mozart _learned_ the piece, not that he composed it. So yes, I concur. There is no way a 4 or 5 year old "composed" this.
@@uumlau Incorrect. Listen to what he says again beginning at 4:02.
We will simply never know for sure. Even if he only learned it at age four is remarkable.
There are souls who were musicians for many lifetimes before. When that kind of person is born into a musical family as Mozart was, these things happen. We see examples of this kind of thing in every field. The range of capacity and ability when it comes to music is vast. This sounds like Mozart, it’s a distinct style. I don’t think the father, in writing in a private journal, was doing anything other than expressing wonder and pride for his incredibly precocious child.
@@VardaMusicI agree. I've thought that for a long time. Just look at the huge soul group that came together in the Bach family.
So cute composition with that little parallel octaves and all 😁
Wtf, there is no parallel octaves in this piece, listen carefully
Mozart had at least some assistance from his father (K. 1 is in his father's handwriting) until he was around 8. Although his proficiency was advanced enough by 11 (and, of course, amazing for his age) that he was being given "adult" commissions, most scholars agree that his style was essentially still similar to, if not outright imitative of, other composers. The earliest works for which Mozart would still be remembered had he written nothing else were composed when he was 17-18; had he died of the smallpox he had when he was 14, he probably would be little more than a footnote in Music History--other composers from that period would definitely be better known.
Edit: Leopold Mozart would still be known for his Violin-Playing treatise--"What Mozart's son might have accomplished had he lived longer..."
3:40 "Three days before his fifth birthday." Well, THAT explains it! I mean, the guy was nearly five.
Also, what was Wolfie doing up as late as 9:30, I'd like to know?! Seems like bad parenting....
: )
Astonishing. A 5-year-old was allowed to stay up past 9 pm.
Does the piece have a name?
It’s a beautiful piece beautifully played but I could not discern a consistent meter on the first listen. Upon my second listening I forced myself to count and hear the 3/4 meter.❤️
How would Glenn Gould play it?
Wolfgang's diminutive name was Wolferl, not Wolfgangerl - the translator goofed a bit there. In English it's not unusual to translate Wolferl to Wolfie.
My family always said Wolfi for those named Wolfgang.
A gift he was from God
En realidad, las piezas se las componía su padre Leopoldo o su amigote Haydn.
His parents definitely put this one up on the fridge.
Do you have the original German where his father calls him “Wolfgang girl?”
Not a note out of place, not a note too many.
Wow that just ruined all my self esteem thanks mozart
I'm only 3 so I still have a year to improve.
Cool piece by Leopold, one of the greatest marketing geniuses of all time
he puts current PR and marketing people to shame. A shame that people can't see through the hype
Neil O'Cynical
This video inadvertently exposes Mozart's lack of musicality and the over-reliance on parlour tricks in the absence of originality. th-cam.com/video/MOuKmtwpJjY/w-d-xo.html
@@Sshooter444 Lol that was actually really funny 😂
You said by Leopold, his father!. Was it not by Amadeus?
So this would be K1?
Something детское ..Но удивительно что это написал четырехлетний ребенок!
Shows promise
Have to wonder what he could have produced had he lived as long as Haydn.
And today there is Elisey Mysin...
Mozart's first composition was a dubstep track.
EMPEROR: Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say? [he stops in difficulty; turning to Orsini-Rosenberg] How shall one say, Director?
ORSINI-ROSENBERG: Too many notes, Your Majesty?
EMPEROR: Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes.
MOZART: I don't understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as are required. Neither more nor less.
(Amadeus, the play)