@accaddeoggi: 16 giugno 1849

Much interest was excited by the appearance of Mademoiselle Wilhelmina Neruda, a little girl some twelve years old [she was just ten], whose violin-playing is not merely wonderful for a child, but sufficiently pure and beautiful to gratify a cultivated taste. She played a concerto which de Beriot was in the habit of playing with an unerring certainty of hand, a vigour of bow, a brilliancyof tone, and a graceful facility which alniost reminded us of do 13eriot himself._ youthful phenomenon that we have ever met with has equaled this gifted child. The audience were load in their expression of delight, mingled with surprise ; for hardly anybody in the room had ever heard of her before, though she had, with other members of her family, been entertaining the audiences at the Princess’s Theatre with music between the, dramatic performances