Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — COMPOSES MUSIC AT SEVEN [ARTICLE]

COMPOSES MUSIC AT SEVEN

Prodigy In France Surprises Professor* by Hl* Genius—Scientists Are Interested. Paris. — A seven-year-old boy of Renens has such extraordinary musical genius that he is said to compose beautiful and original music with astonishing facility and speed. Among the works of the boy, whose name is Rene Gul Hou, are symphonies, sonatas, melodies, fugues, and duos for piano and violin, all of which have provoked the admiration of the professors of the Conservatoire. Scientists are much interested in this case of abnormal precocity. Young Guillou plays the piano perfectly, but his chief ability seems to be that of composing. His ability appears to have developed suddenly one day after the child had heard a military bind play Chopin’s musical march. On returning home, although he had never toucbed a musical instrument, he is said, to have gone to the piano and played the march quite correctly. Rene Guillou is the son of a postoffice employe.