Word: mathieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensation there was last week at Manhattan's Town Hall. There, with practically no advance ballyhoo, a slight, dark-eyed, French-Canadian nine-year-old named André Mathieu hurried onto the stage, bowed stiffly, and pounced upon the keyboard of a huge concert grand. The audience applauded with delight at his precociously efficient playing of piano pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, but what left them wide-eyed with wonder was his musicianly performance of 14 of his own complicated and expert compositions, some of them written when he was only four. None of them was childish. Some...
Solemn little André Mathieu, who speaks no English, started practicing the piano at the age of three, learned to write musical notes before he could write words. When he was seven the Quebec government sent him to study for a spell in Paris. In Montreal, where he lives with his father, mother and sister, he spends his spare time playing with tin soldiers and following the latest European war news. A bright student, specially interested in poetry and history, he has gotten all his general education from private tutors. Unlike many a composer three times...