infant prodigy
Britishnoun
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On the back of such stories, Andrews was given a slew of lionising monikers: "prima donna in pigtails," "infant prodigy of trills," "the miracle voice" and "Britain's juvenile coloratura."
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022
The Dickenses’ apartment was a block from the Regency Theater, which presented plays and advertised spectacles like “an infant prodigy, only eight years of age,” who recited Shakespeare.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
"I cannot help thinking," said Home Secretary James Chuter Ede in the House of Commons, "that swimming the Channel at that early age is rather a severe test even for an infant prodigy."
From Time Magazine Archive
Son of a music-loving Hungarian steward to a princely house, Franz Liszt was an infant prodigy.
From Time Magazine Archive
As you say, Mozart was an infant prodigy, but if we judge from the first little compositions that have been preserved, he began very simply and worked up, whereas Korngold begins at Richard Strauss.
From Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Brower, Harriette
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