Greatest Music Geniuses — Ranked by IQ
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Music Geniuses
Music is mathematics made audible. These composers built cathedrals out of sound.
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Total Music Geniuses
28
Highest IQ
268
Average IQ
167
#1 Genius
Marnen
Top 15 Music Geniuses by IQ
Ranked by estimated IQ score, based on historical records and psychometric research.
| # | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marnen Laibow-Koser | 268 | 1970 | Being a child prodigy, proficient with multiple musical instruments and programming techniques. |
| 2 | Christiaan Huygens | 190 | 1629 | Explanation of Saturn's rings Centrifugal force Collision formulae Gambler's ruin |
| 3 | Pythagoras | 180 | 0570 | Communalism Metempsychosis Musica universalis |
| 4 | Elizabeth I | 175 | 1533 | Queen of England (reign: 1558 to 1603); educated by renowned scholar, Roger Ascham; as a student, sh |
| 5 | Carl Maria von Weber | 165 | 1786 | German composer; creator of the romantic opera. |
| 6 | Wright brothers | 165 | 1867 | Inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane, the Wright Fly |
| 7 | Joseph Haydn | 160 | 1732 | Austrian composer. |
| 8 | Edgar Allan Poe | 145 | 1809 | American writer, editor, and literary critic; best-known for his poem “The Raven” (1845) noted for i |
| 9 | Leslie Lemke | 58 | 1952 | Being able to play any musical piece on a piano after hearing it once. |
| 10 | Jacob Bernoulli | None | 1655 | Bernoulli differential equationBernoulli numbersBernoulli's formulaBernoulli polynomialsBernoulli ma |
| 11 | Niccolò Paganini | None | 1782 | Composed first opera at age eleven |
| 12 | Franz Schubert | None | 1797 | "Erlkönig" (D. 328), the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (Trout Quintet), the Symphony No. 8 in B m |
| 13 | Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | None | 1804 | Jacobi's elliptic functions Jacobian Jacobi symbol Jacobi ellipsoid Jacobi polynomials Jacobi trans |
| 14 | Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga | None | 1806 | Composed a two-act opera at age thirteen |
| 15 | Clara Schumann | None | 1819 | The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 |
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Samuel Barber
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Gian Carlo Menotti
Composed first opera at age eleven
Nino Rota
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Glenn Gould
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Leslie Howard (musician)
Perfect pitch, and ability to recall anything by ear, first cited in The Herald, Melbourne, when he
Evgeny Kissin
Entered music school at age six
Kit Armstrong
Concerto debut at eight; Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years
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Emily Bear
Composed and released her first piano album at age five
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