A MUSICAL WONDER.
A correspondent writes :—“A genius has been revealed to certain favored individuals in Paris. In a letter which I have just received, the following passage occurs : “I have two wonders to tell you of. I have seen and heard the genius of music. He is a lively boy, nine years of age, with Italian gaiters, and speaking black eyes. Cesarino Galeotti is the new Mozart. He is inspired. The piano is to him what a-plaything is to an ordinary child. He improvises, plays at sight, composes, and plays from memory the compositions of the greatest masters. Dupre (the old operatic, tenor) 1 noted a few ■ bars,-aiidothe child repeated the air with variations in. major, minor, and then in,a different key, making delicious music. He mnst be heard to be believed in. His father 1 is a. musician, and was a chapel-master. He intends to take the boy to London to make him known, and then they will return to Italy to continue Cesarino’s studies as a composer, I-have also heard an American girl of 12 play admirably on the violin, but this is simply percocious talent: the other is genius.
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Patea Mail, 31 March 1882, Page 3
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193A MUSICAL WONDER. Patea Mail, 31 March 1882, Page 3
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