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Show MEMORY AXD INTELLECT. The possession of a great memory does not necessarily mean a strong intellect. Mozart, when only 13 years old. played a new opera from one hearing, which has been composed especially to try his skill. But in addition ad-dition to reproducing the opera from memory without missiner a note, he introduced in the second playing the variations, which struck his cultured hearers dumb with amazement. Blind Tom could probably have reproduced the same opera. He did play Liszt's celebrated Hungarian opera after hearing it once without missing a note, but he could not have created what Mozart did. He had Mozart's memory, but not his Intellect. |