Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — A Wonderful Boy. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Boy.

It is probably safe to say not only that little Franz von Vecsey is the most wonderful little boy in the world, bnt that he offers to science as difficult a problem as any it knows. Here is a child Just turning eleven who is not merely master of all the technic of the riolln, but plays the most profound music, even that of Bach, like a genius of mature years. One's conclusions as to musical genius were simply confirmed on bearing from bis mother that this child practices only two, hours a day and often less. Yet be is absolutely master of the most difficult music written by the greatest virtuosi of the past in order to show off their own technic. Explain it how we may, it is the fact that musical genius is the earliest to manifest Itself, and in no-other spneres of human activity can a child of eleven be an acknowledged master. —Pall Mall Gazette.