Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No 1 In E Flat K 16 Andante

[imsaungheeko]

this is so incredible!

[DabneyFountain]

8 yrs old...second grade...most of us reading "See spot run."

[Archivioinutile]

Pretty sure mozart composed something even before coming out of his mother uterus!

[merlinos95]

0:20 to 0:33 funny how he uses that four note line in both his first and last symphony :-o

[AutumLeaves1]

i still cant accept the fact that he did this when he was 8. still.

[deja2056]

at this age mozart was practicing. later mozart had more to offer yet is was essentially the same music. that is why i listened to this. its a glimmer of

his mature genius. he just couldn't speak as well but spoke pefectly nonetheless.

[yamamonkey]

This man was the kind of genius there can only be one of. I love rock music but damn it, this man is MILES beyond the likes of Jimi Hendrix. I'm saying that even though I'm a huge Jimi fan.

I mean... THE GUY WAS 8 WHEN HE WROTE THIS

[dgfrgl1997]

god damnit he was 8 when  he wrote this

[reinabanana]

i can't believe that he was 8 when he composed this :O

[c0731]

Love you Hatsune Miku.

[Timjn14]

is it true that mozart composed twinkle twinkle little star when he was 6?

[havee3333333]

@Timjn14

Nope, it was Jane Taylor in the early 1800s, and it was when she was 23.

[19GirlBad]

where is symphony 2 in B-flat major, K, 27?

[JeremiahKlarman]

Which orchestra is this?

[MrHaydn1974]

De una manera retrospectiva,esta fue su mejor obra.

[Eamesam]

Very repetitive, but I'd like to see me do better haha. :')

[MrHaydn1974]

@Eamesam Me too.

[31operafan]

No wonder (no pun intended) he was called a "Wunderkind" (wonder child). This is why he is one of my favorite classical composers. I am curious as to know how he reacted to people playing his pieces shortly after they premiered. I'm sure he was proud.

[slaytesics]

It's 8, and @TehAsploder, you can shove it, Philip Glass and Mozart are completely different styles, fuck off

[AIOvideos]

He was 4, not 5 not 8 not a normal age either. it is quite remarkable

[360isbest1]

wasnt he 5 when he composed this

[gorilazed]

Nothing special but then again ..... HE WAS 8!!!!!

[codeman2008]

@gorilazed It is definitely something special. It is lovely music.

[evanbrockwalter]

My biggest goal when I was 8 was trying to hit a baseball. Mozart > Me

[tennismom0416]

I had never heard this Symphony before. What is so impressive is the fact that Mozart wrote this Symphony at a very young age! This man was a total musical genius!!!

[SuperUnknown4life]

wow hes first opera was when he was 4 years old omg :D i wanna be him!

[greatwarcate]

It boggles my mind to think an 8 year old could have written this. It is (quite understandably) fairly basic compared to his later symphonies, but one thing is clear: Mozart understood at a very early age how to make music sound beautiful. Even when it is simple and basic, it still has this essence of beauty. Mozart was incapable of writing anything unmusical.

[LePatay]

@greatwarcate

He learnt music before alphabet! He was about 7 years in advance of anyone else in music, 10 years more mature compared to his age and was a genius. (Sorry for my English, I’m French.)

[31operafan]

Woah! O.O Before I knew about Mozart, I never knew about any other 8-year-old writing symphonies.

Not bad. I mean, some of it is a little repetitive, but good for a first symphony. :)

[Scariestkiller]

Wait... this was Mozart at his most amateur state?... I was very right to look up to him.

[yamamonkey]

wait

HE WAS 8 WHEN HE COMPOSED THIS!?

i'm gonna pack up my guitar now.

[pinkskullcandy15]

Motzart was only 5 when he composed his first music

[ComposerJMA]

As calling Mozart a god, consider Saint-saens or Mendelsohnn. They composed well before the ages of 4.

[BenGabbay]

@ComposerJMA "Well before?" So they started composing at 2?

[ComposerJMA]

@BenGabbay Considering the fact taht mozart started between 5 and 6, it needn't be 2 to be well before. Although Saint-Saens was composing at 3.

[Az1111000]

How could a little kid make music like this? Can anyone say reincarnation? It's just practice. But it's amazing just the same, knowing that he earned it and was gifted by God. Just an opinion, no offense to you one lifers!

[Chaliamusiclover]

Music was second nature for Mozart so people don't be surprise that he was and his one of the greatest composerof all time. Too bad his died so young.

[lizarthopinsky]

how can an 8 year old compose this ? O_O sure was a genius

[soverysneaky]

Mozart was touched by the Hand of God. 

[kr3yzmjn]

@soverysneaky Mozart is a God

[soverysneaky]

@kr3yzmjn (You meant to use a small "g" there, I think.)

[BeingZlatan]

@soverysneaky That sounds kinda rapey.

[soverysneaky]

@BeingZlatan To an asshole it "sounds kinda rapey".

[BeingZlatan]

@soverysneaky I think someone needs to learn how to take a joke.. :P

[Jalapablo]

This entire Eb symphony - if you take it as a whole and considering the age of its composer - is quite astounding. It has great symmetery, the music never bores, there are no superfluous notes or careless measures. It's a gem; it may not be as brilliant a diamond as Mozart's later symphonies and works, but a little gem in its own right nonetheless. I think you would be proud to have this work in your portfolio as a prepubescent "first symphony", if you were a composer. Ingenius!

[alilapointe1]

how can he structure music at this age?,structure is something an adult understands with maturity. amazing!

[hatchetlove4life1]

im 15 and have been listioning to all of his compositions all my life i know them by heart

[seelikemee]

I don't understand why there is only 13,000 views? This is amazing!

[AbbieRoseJ]

@seelikemee its annoying. people don't appreciate this any more. Especially young people. (Like me haha)

[seelikemee]

I don't understand why there is only 13,000 views? This is amazing!

[markusboyd3]

There is little evidence on how much of this work was wolfgang's. His father did say he corrected his mistakes, but how many? We do not know for sure what percent is his, we probably wont ever know. His father made him, without leopold, there would be no Mozart.

[polymath7]

@markusboyd3

"His father made him, without Leoplod thwere would be no Mozart."

Bullshit. Massively false statement -unless I suppose you mean it in the most literal sense. Genius is genetic.

[SabreTooth123]

@polymath7 I would imagine that he would also need to be lead in the right direction. He would have needed someone to teach him piano and he would have needed all of the hours he put towards studying, those are environmental factors, not genetic ones. I don't know if what markusboyd3 said is true, it might be massively false, but Mozart's success wasn't entirely based on genetics.

[markusboyd3]

@SabreTooth123 My statement is totally correct. There is little evidence in what percent was his composition. What i personally believe is, leopold pointed him in the right direction. Mozart did not write the music at the age of 5, he played the music, his father wrote it down. His father would not have wrote down anything which wouldnt have put the future generations in awe. And btw, Genius is not made, its is discovered, and with his great musical environment from a very young age, it found hm

[SabreTooth123]

@markusboyd3 For the most part, I was agreeing with you, markusboyd3, What you say makes sense. I disagree with the 'Genius is genetic' comment. It's a combination of genetics and environmental factors. If he did not practice as much as he did, he wouldn't be considered a musical genius, this goes for most professions.

[markusboyd3]

@SabreTooth123 I do find genetics fascinating, not really i do! But i will now say, that my family are not musical at all, but i took music lessons from the age of 7. It was my own will, i wasnt pushed to do it. My family know nothing about music, my parents have not influenced me in any way shape or form in music, no, that is the job of my teacher. But if what you say is true, i do hope my teacher isnt my father... I am not saying i am a genius, that would be arrogant, but have a think about it

[markusboyd3]

@polymath7 It is true, and you are false. I am correct for one, leopold was his private teacher, and two, leopold was wolfgangs father, and three, leopold heavily influenced him. Genius is not genetic. Anyone has the potential of becomng a genius, its just finding it, is the hardest thing to do.

[btyremanable]

@markusboyd3 what evidence is there that his father corrected him? I disagree that his father 'made him' although his father may have helped him yes, for me his greatest works were all written after his fathers death, the requiem and Don Giovanni.

[tarquin161234]

2:35 - 2:50 is impressive for a youngster.

[googlekopfkind]

simpel

[btyremanable]

this is better than anything I've composed, and he did this at such a young age, what a legend!

[Ilkeyrion]

@bobstronge: there was no symphony in the Baroque period. The symphony derived from the overture to opera, and then from there, things got better.

[vale584ok]

i like that..

[TehAsploder]

Even at 8, Mozart was composing more complex works than Philip Glass ever has.

[Chazzbass13]

@TehAsploder because philip glass is a minimalist

[TheDavid2222]

@TehAsploder Bullshit. I've heard philip glass live and he is incredible. 100 years from now philip glass will be one of the greats. It sure seems like it takes time to realize how great a composer is. People like you probably wouldn't have liked mozart in his own time because he wasn't close enough to the baroque style. lol

[vanderbiltsax]

@TehAsploder Philip Glass is a minimalist composer, hence - not complex. Purposefully not complex. Mozart is phenomenal. Philip Glass is phenomenal. Different composers, different time periods. Imagine what utter shit composers would write if they listened to people make comments about their music or compare them to others.

[bobstronge]

is how the baroque symphony

[baptcheg]

He was 8 ;)

[darkdemonded]

@baptcheg i'm 22 and my harmony homework is bleeding out of my teachers RED pen!! :'(

[freestylerja16]

@baptcheg 7



[Bl00DN00B]

@freestylerja16 8

[Hussarer]

@Bl00DN00B 8

[Bl00DN00B]

@Hussarer 9

[Hussarer]

@Bl00DN00B 8

[jona4176]

I believe he was 4. not 2 :)

[Avixz]

@jona4176 Actually he was 8. Admittedly it's pretty bad but he was 8......

[Shenanigasm]

@Avixz It's not bad at all, for 8 years old it's astonishing.

[EdwardWhelanPiano]

I wonder how old Mozart was when he wrote this. Probably 2! This sounds like Johann Christian Bach on valium!

[yoshikaxchan]

Wonderfull