If Mozart wasn’t such a highly gifted violinist in his early years would the symphonic world be blessed with the five violin concertos he composed before the age of nineteen? Would they have been so brilliantly conceived and written?

It’s hard to say. But acclaimed violinist, Nikolaj Znaider, who will perform the classical prodigy’s “Turkish Violin Concerto, No 5” with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this week, has his own ideas on the subject.