New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- A 6-year-old Indian-origin boy has caught the world's attention as he bagged the Guinness World Record for recognising as many as 16 classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven by ear in merely 60 seconds.

Shivankh Varun Varadharajan, the Dubai-based young music prodigy, recognised the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss, Rossini, and Brahms with remarkable accuracy.

His mother, Yalini, said that Shivankh began showing an acute ear for music from a very early age. At around two and a half years old, his mother said, the boy would often hum along to orchestral scores in cartoons like Tom and Jerry. Over time, Yalini sai...