Show MUSICIANS OF TENDER YEARS many youthful prodigies in the world of melody like so many of the world worlds a great composers sir edward elgar was a youthful prodigy of exceptional gifts as was proved by a recent perform ance of a suite composed by him at the immature age of 12 but even sir edward was probably not as precocious as one of his english tors sors samuel wesley who in his eighth year heard a regimental band play a march which he had composed for or it at 11 franz schubert had already placed several songs string and piano pieces to his credit han del s first attempts at composition were made at eight and Vieux temps who began to scrape the strings of a tiny fiddle at two Is said to have been even more precocious sir charles halle was only tour four years old when he played in public a sonata expressly composed tor for him liszt was a public performer at nine chopin chopla and ruben stein at eight lady halle and joachim at seven and at five mozart composed a piece of music almost too difficult tor for his father to play |