Teen music prodigy can learn pieces in hours despite being unable to read a note
Samuel Osmond, 19, has never had a piano lesson but can pick up pieces by composers such as Chopin and Beethoven in minutes because of his note perfect memory.
He is currently learning a piece by Chopin, Ballarde No1 in G Minor, which is filled with rapid scales, large chords and difficult fingerings.
It is a piece so difficult that his music lecturer Cecil Du Valle, who has two masters in music, cannot play it.
Osmond said: “I grew up with music. My mum played and I played guitar for six years.
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