The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-08
A WONDERFUL CHILD
Hs PLAYS THE VIOLIN WITH THE
SKILL OF A MASTER.

Composes Elaborate and Original Pieces
of Music with Facility-Hss RemarlSa-
BILE Memory and Answers the Most Puz-
Eling Questions Promptly and Correctly.
There is a wonder child one of extraor-
binary talent, at present attracting much
attention in Chicago. Florizel Fabrice
Valdane Reuter- is his name. He is the
"most wonderful of child wonders. If
half what is ascribed TO him Is true; he
certainly Is In the words of his chron-
teller; "Only six short years ago he opened
his blue eyes I'm this big world, but what
wonders has he accomplished He is first
a violinist Three years ago he began
practicing upon a tiny quarter sized in
strument Only recently has his hand
grown large enough TO use half sized
violin. Today he plays with astonishing
facility such pieces as De Beriot's First
Concerto and Ninth Concerto; La Me-
lancolie, Prume Twenty third Concerto,
Viotti; Petite Tambour, David, and
Alards Faust fantasia, and he plays
them with a correctness of intonation, &C.
curacy and artistic abandon that leave the
nearer SPECIFICS with amazement. Violin
ODllEdbbS W SOhEH AN lAhNNioS IiNS WIN
sympathetic and artistic feeling
"He composes for the violin little pieces
which show his grasp of ideas. One is a
Kaiser March, describing the approach
and passage of the German army; another
is The Witches Dance, in which he imi-
tates many of the instruments in the or
chcstra-the violin, viola, cello, piccolo,
flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon-all i'm
their proper pitch and key. Moses In tho
Bulrushcs is the name he has given Co
cradle song evolved from his own little
head. These pieces hetray no evidence OF
imitation or "reminiscences of other com
positions.
His answers 10 questions put at ran
dom are prompt and accurate.
"Hrc is "a specimen of the literature
this marvel reads from choice First of
all the Bible; Murray's Manual of My
thology, Bennett iohn's Among the But
terliies, Buuyan- Pilgrims Progress,
Hawthorne 5 'IHnglcwo0d Tales, Irying's
--Netch Book and 'Wolfert's Roost,
SCOTS Tales of "a Grandfather, Nus.
graves Birds and Butterflies Hudsons
British Birds, pton standard Operas
and symphonies, Poem of the Ring Of
the NibeluupCn, 10y Dippold; SCott's
l-uON Ol INC l-iNC' -, Ioh NblINC AiNl-
old and Prisoner Of Chillon, Tcnnyson's
May Queen and Locksley Hall, explo-
rations of Liyingstoneand Stanley, Shakes
peare ; Macbeth, Merchant of Venice.
Julius Cesar poems of Poe, Holmes,
Whittier and Eugene Field and biographies
of musicians, artists, statesmen, great gen.
erals and characters in history. Each
month he reads the magazines. Studer's
immense illustrated work, Birds of North
America, presented TO him by Lyman j.
Gage, is his especial delight"
The wonder has great musical talent,
Wagner being his favorite composer. He
is devout in his religion and full of love
for his mother. His sayings are quaint
and full of wisdom. In the closing para
graph his chronicler says: 1.-The prophecy
of many who hear this child is that he will
never live to grow up, and people seem to
infer that he is being crammed with knowl-
edge and forced into an early grave. His
good health, rosy cheeks and physical activ.
ity are sufficient refutation of the former
prophecy, and no one who knows his home
life will entertain the latter. He is blessed
with a wise and sensible mother, who
throws around him every safeguard of care
full diet, ventilated rooms, plenty Of sleep
and exercise and regular hours, and his
hours of study are under careful limitation.
II must be remembered that his wonderful
feats of memory require no study or men,
tai effort, and he recalls pages of facts as
readily as many would a single incident. ="
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