Pablo Massa: >Does anyone knows what's exactly the so called "Mozart Effect"?. I've >heard about it something like this: that the music of Mozart has a high >incidence at the development of intelligence when used with kids for >educational purposes. Is this correct (or true)?. Why Mozart, then?, >why not a "Haydn effect"?. As I understand it, kids about to take tests were subjected to classical music. Compared to their fellows who hadn't heard the music, they did a little better. However, the effect was apparently only temporary. As to why it's Mozart's and not Haydn's effect, that would be because, since no one has recently made a popular movie of Haydn's life, Mozart is just about the only classical composer people in the United States currently know ("Immortal Beloved" hasn't yet been re-released on DVD in a director's cut). Steve Schwartz