There is no question that Mozart was a prodigy as his aptitude for composition surpasses anything that everybody else has yet done. He was able to learn to play the piano at the age of three and was writing his own work by the time he was four. Generally parents can barely visualize having a boy that bright. The idea branded as the Mozart effect has been around for a really long time. This is the idea that exposing children to his music will cause them to be extraordinarily bright as well.