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Were those tons of composers like Greenberg doing that sort of work at age 14?
Greenberg on the lack of anything really new in classical music. I think this is publicly available--let me know if it isn't.
Tentative hypothesis: people mostly get hooked by melody and rhythm, but classical has been exploring timbre (to the extent that it's exploring anything) for quite a while.
That's not necessarily fair. As I was taught, "nobody composes in a vacuum." Art and Science constantly evolve so you need to learn what came before, which means it will take longer and longer for prodigies to flourish.
Nobody performs in a vacuum either, for obvious reasons. Unless they are performing Mister Holland's Opus.