YOUNG COMPOSER
A FIVE YEAR OLD PRODIGY. Pi'inc© George Chavchavadze, the pianist, wRo has gained conm'derabio fame .both in England and the United States, is Russian by birth, or rather a. Bessarabian: He was originally destined for the Diplomatic Service, hut the Bolshevik revolution put an end to that ‘aspiration, and he had to seek to earn his living in another field.
Th,& Prince has a handsome sister, Princess Marina Chaehavadze, who has lived for some years in Switzerland. At a house party in Dorset a year or two ago, she startled the locality with her remarkable riding, sitting Cossack fashion, crouching low over the nack of her mount, and charging over the roughest country at a speed which would have meant a broken neck for a less skilful rider.
The family formerly’resided in a large house in Jdolland Park, shortly after they went as refugees to London. On.s, of Prince George’s childhood treasures is a piece of music which he composed at the age of fouler five and which was afterwards played at ian imperial function for a war charity. *■' '•
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 3
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181YOUNG COMPOSER Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 3
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