title: Family constellation and creativity: firstborn predominance among classical music composers.
abstract: Biographies of classical musci composers were examined for family constellation information. Usable data were found for 80 composers. Firstborns, especially only children, were found significantly more frequently than in a sample of creative writers studied by Bliss. Increased frequency of firstborns was also suggested in a study of musical performers by Raychaudhuri. Classical musci composition was seen as an ability more similar to usual academic pursuits than creative writing.
mesh_terms: D001722:Birth Order; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D009863:Only Child; D014956:Writing