High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) is an Australian concert pianist. He is as well-known for having schizoaffective disorder as he is for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film Shine. Helfgott was born in Melbourne to Polish-Jewish parents. He became known as a child prodigy after his father started teaching him the piano when he was five. When he was ten years old he studied under Frank Arndt, a Perth piano teacher, and won several local competitions—sometimes alone and sometimes with his elder sister Margaret. At the age of fourteen, people such as Perth composer James Penberthy and writer Katharine Susannah Prichard raised money to enable him to go to the United States to study music. However, his father denied him permission on the grounds that he was not ready for independence (and presumably also given early indications of mental illness).

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