It has become the fashion to sneer at musical child prodigies. The market has been drugged with them. It has been said that the child prodigy grows up into a mediocrity, that such precocity is unhealthy, etc. Of course, most prodigies do not turn out geniuses in maturity, or the world would be flooded with geniuses, which it is not. But little mention has been made of the remarkable extent to which great musicians have been infant prodigies, as almost all have been.
Mephisto, sagacious commentator in Musical America, drew forth a few...
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