Topic
Child prodigy
About: Child prodigy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 75 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1264 citations. The topic is also known as: wunderkind.
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1 Oct 1980
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the mathematical contributions of John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener, both child prodigies born near the turn of the century, who made profound contributions to abstract mathematics.
Abstract: John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener were mathematician-scientists, both child prodigies born near the turn of the century. As young men each made profound contributions to abstract mathematics.
145 citations
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1 Jan 1990
TL;DR: Barriers to Understanding Accelerating the Acquisition of Abilities Family Backgrounds Child Prodigies Motivation and Temperament The Concept of Intelligence and the Explanation of High Abilities Final Words as discussed by the authors
Abstract: Barriers to Understanding Accelerating the Acquisition of Abilities Family Backgrounds Child Prodigies Motivation and Temperament The Concept of Intelligence and the Explanation of High Abilities Final Words.
144 citations
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23 Oct 2003
TL;DR: Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis as discussed by the authors, focusing on the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works.
Abstract: An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces-the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.
133 citations
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1 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Barriers to Understanding Accelerating the Acquisition of Abilities Family Backgrounds Child Prodigies Motivation and Temperament The Concept of Intelligence and the Explanation of High Abilities Final Words as mentioned in this paper
Abstract: Barriers to Understanding Accelerating the Acquisition of Abilities Family Backgrounds Child Prodigies Motivation and Temperament The Concept of Intelligence and the Explanation of High Abilities Final Words.
85 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined the cognitive and developmental profiles of eight child prodigies by taking their developmental histories and administering the Stanford-Binet 5th ed. full scale intelligence test and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ).
52 citations
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