For those who aren’t familiar with the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he is the quintessential musical prodigy child. Here’s a dude who, already capable at the piano and violin, began composing music and  performing for royalty at the age of five.

Yeah, I know - pretty insane, right?

Well this article from BBC discusses some previously undiscovered works from when he was about eight years old. According to Harvard professor Robert Levin, “What the composer expects of the player in racing passagework, crossed hands and wild leaps is more than a bit crazy. I consider it quite credible that the movement was composed by the young Mozart who wished to show in it everything he could do.”

Even Mozart’s latest refined symphonies are quite dense, so I can barely imagine what the child was capable of when anxious to prove himself.