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Musical Prodigies on Naxos

BBC Music magazine’s June 2009 issue carried a fascinating feature article about musical prodigies. Naxos has recordings, not only of these composers’ music, but in some cases also of the composers themselves as performers.

Click on each link below to view the discographies. You may also purchase these CDs from top online retailers (links are given on each CD page).

Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga	Georges Bizet	Benjamin Britten
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George Enescu	Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Franz Liszt	Felix Mendelssohn	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Sergey Prokofiev	Camille Saint-Saëns	Franz Schubert
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Dmitry Shostakovich
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Ludwig van Beethoven	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	Igor Markevitch
Wrote his first composition at 11½ years of age Composer page	Died in his mid-twenties having already made an important contribution as a composer Composer page	Played his own Piano Concerto at Covent Garden, London, in 1929 at the age of sixteen Composer page

Perhaps you can think of other musical prodigies or precocious young composers. Chances are, you’ll find them on Naxos. Try browsing through our Composer Index.