This is a popular science article written as a commission for the Bavarian Center for The Gifted and Talented, at Freising, Bavaria, Germany (http://www.begabungszentrum-bayern.de)It is a brief overview of what musical giftedness is as based on current research. It also focuses on educational implications of what science now knows of musical giftedness. The article contains no source references.It is aimed at teachers, parents and of course the musically gifted children themselves