莫扎特，天才作曲家？

沃尔夫冈·莫扎特，是举世公认的天才作曲家。他父亲利奥波德·莫扎特，本身就是著名的作曲家和表演家。但他也是一位专横的家长，从儿子三岁起，他就强迫儿子开始进行作曲和表演的强化训练。所以从很小的时候起，小莫扎特就接受了与他同住一屋的一位专家老师的严格指导。

莫扎特的第一部作品至今仍被公认是一部难得的杰作，这是他二十一岁的时候创作的。这么小的年龄，就能创作出如此天花板级别的杰作，算是天才吧？但是我们别忘了，到那时，年轻的莫扎特已经经历了十八年极其艰苦的专业训练。

正如爱迪生所言，“天才是1%灵感加99%汗水。”

“Contrary to popular belief, gifted adults were seldom child prodigies.”(Bloom,1982)

“How do you solve a conundrum like Mozart?”(Syed, 2010)

“Mozart's father was of course Leopold Mozart, a famous composer and performer in his own right. He was also a domineering parent who started his son on a programme of intensive training in composition and performing at age three... So, from the earliest age, Wolfgang was receiving heavy instruction from an expert teacher who lived with him...

“Mozart's first work regarded today as a masterpiece…[was]…composed when he was twenty-one. That's certainly an early age, but we must remember that by then Wolfgang had been through eighteen years of extremely hard, expert training.”(Geoff Colvin)