A MUSICAL PRODIGY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 3

A MUSICAL PRODIGY.

The musical prodigy, Joeef Bofmann, the nine year old Polish pianist, is dee- ' eribed as a round-faced, ruddy-cheeked ' boy, who, as he stood with close cropped ! hair jin a aailor suit, gave no more sign , of a musical genius than any ordinary , aoboolboy would have done. He is a ■ good natured lad, whose talents have rut eradicated the* boyish grin with which on coming oo and goiDg off the platform he : salutes tbe andienco. At the piano tho boy la lost la the artist. In an exquieite : little piece that he played it was difficult . to believe tbat the performer waß but ( nine years of age. Every touch upon , the Instrument betokened some feeling, and ' the audience listened almost spellbound ' •■ the child drew forth a Hood of delicate ' melody In so thoroughly sympathetic a ] style, and then broke into loud and lotig- 1 continued applause, which proclaimed j the triumph of theartiat. In a gavotte , bj Fiearl, some compositions by Mozart and three pieces of his own, the boy enhanced the impression he had made, and astonished every one by his marvellous strength and expression. . He bids fair, like Mozart, to od joy a reputation throughout the world when other boys are learning their first notes His memory is prodigious. He has played a long work of Weber's without the book after reading it three times.