Albrecht Durer’s first known work, drawn as a silverpoint, when he was just 13 years old.  A beautiful achievement of child genius. Some people are born into greatness or find it at an early age.

In composing my “Music for Infants” series, I strove to create a musical backdrop that could help foster an environment that would compel infants to imagine, and think, and develop their natural skills in mathematics, perception, and sense.

It’s my belief that there is genius in all of us, waiting to flower and take root.

My life’s work as a composer is to urge the youngest minds on the planet to prepare to meet and beat, or at least emulate. the great geniuses of prior centuries.  In keeping with the themes of genius, perspective, nuance and polyphonic melodies that promote learning, please listen to a fugal melody I composed in honor of Durer’s brilliance. The piece is based on one of his mathematical equations.

By the age of thirty, Dürer had completed or begun three of his most famous series of woodcuts on religious subjects: The Apocalypse (1498), the Large Woodcut Passion cycle (ca. 1497–1500), and the Life of the Virgin (begun 1500). Durer, a blue chip genius of history 

Thomas Schoenberger

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