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MUNRICO DENGREMONT.
The grace and ease of the little artist, his enthusiasm and vivacity,
could not fail to interest and amuse his audiences, while at the same
time it saddened the most thoughtful of them, who realized how
unnatural and how cruel to the child the whole proceeding must of
necessity be. That he was passionately fond of his art there could be
no doubt, or that he lived only in and for it, and in the excitement
and applause his public appearances brought him; but that his
indulgence of his passion without proper restraint was the cause of
the snapping of the strings of his little life, and of the wreck of what
might have been a brilliant professional career, was plainly manifest
to every physician, and to every mother who saw and heard and
pitied him.
Until within a very few months of his death he played only by ear.
When he began to learn his notes, and to comprehend the
immensity of music as a science, and the magnificent future it
promised him, his devotion to study, his ambition, and his own active
mind were more than his feeble frame could endure, and his brief
candle was suddenly extinguished. At the close of this run of the
Black Crook, December 6, 1873, he was taken to Boston, where he
played in the Naiad Queen, and led the orchestra of the Boston
Theatre until the night of the 11th of January, 1874. After the
matinée and evening performance of that date he was heard by his
father to murmur in his troubled sleep, “O God, can you make room
for a little fellow like me?” and he was found dead by his father at
daybreak. With no sins of his own to answer for, surely the prayer
was heard; and the coming of that little child was not forbidden.
The few musical prodigies who have succeeded Master Speaight in
this country have been blessed, happily, with stronger constitutions
or with wiser guardians; and Munrico Dengremont, Josef Hofman,
and Otto Hegner, so far at least, have found the rest they need
before it is too late. The little Dengremont, a violinist, began his
professional life at the age of eight, and in 1875. He came of musical
people, he had studied hard, and as a phenomenon he was very
successful. He first appeared in New York in 1881, when he was
fourteen years of age, but he seems to have produced nothing, and
to have done nothing since he went back to Europe some years ago.
The infant musician who of late years attracted the greatest
attention in this country, next to the “Child Violinist” noticed in the
opening of this chapter, was unquestionably Josef Hofman; and he
appealed particularly to a class of the community so high in the
social scale, according to its own ideas, that it repudiated Niblo’s
Garden and the Black Crook as vulgar. It never heard of little
Speaight until it heard of his death, and it knows nothing of him
now, perhaps, except as the mythical hero of charming and
sympathetic poems written in his memory by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
and Austin Dobson.
JOSEF HOFMAN.