![]() ![]() “But when I am not thinking about it at all, when I’m just relaxing, skipping in the garden and just about to fall asleep or just about to wake up - or when I’m actually in a dream - then I get the beautiful inspiration that I put together.”įuture plans include a symphony. “If I try to sit down and think, ‘now I must get inspiration,’ then I just don’t get inspiration, it doesn’t come to me,” she explains. I didn’t write my ideas down, I just had them in my head, and I played them. “After it finished, I asked my parents, ‘How can music be so beautiful?’ Then I started having ideas of my own. She heard a lullaby by the composer Richard Strauss, she says, and she was dumbfounded. Alma, normally “an extremely good-natured girl,” started screaming if her parents tried to get out of the car while music she loved was still playing.Īlma recalls falling in love with music sometime after age 2. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter describes Alma’s performing and composing talents as “absolutely extraordinary.”Īlma’s father, Guy Deutscher (DOY-chur), remembers her “singing almost before she started speaking” - and one day, coming home from a toddlers’ party singing a nursery rhyme in perfect pitch, with all the notes just right.ĭrives to the supermarket turned into tests of will, he says. “I dream about how it’s going to look like on the stage.”Ĭonductor Zubin Mehta, who is helping to stage the opera, is only one of today’s musical greats impressed by her talent. “I can’t wait until everything will come together,” she says, looking ahead to “Cinderella’s” premiere in Vienna, Austria, on December 29. It seemed effortless, but the girl in the red woolen tights and floral print dress was clearly in charge - and enjoying running the show. Rehearsing her German-language opera “Cinderella” recently, Alma gave instructions and sang phrases in a clear soprano, switching from piano to violin as she accompanied the soloists. When not living music, the child prodigy from Dorking, England, is busy scraping her knees climbing trees, meeting friends on the playground or swimming.īut when focused on her passion, she’s all business. “I think for me it’s more interesting to be Alma” instead of Mozart, she says. But fresh from rehearsal, Alma laughs at the suggestion. Mozart, who wrote his first symphony at age 8, may come to mind. (Ronald Zak/AP)Īlma Deutscher is a composer, pianist and violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera will have its world premiere next month. Alma, 11, is a composer, pianist and violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera will have its world premiere next month. Alma Deutscher plays violin during a rehearsal in Vienna, Austria. ![]()
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