and sometimes it's a little bit difficult for people to take me seriously because I'm just a little girl." Commenting on the public perception of child prodigies and their musical output, Deutscher told the newspaper Die Zeit when she was 10: "I want my music to be taken seriously. Much of the critical response to Deutscher's compositions in the first years of her public exposure centered on her young age and status as a child prodigy. Her melodies themselves often arrive unbidden, including in her dreams.
In September 2014, a viral YouTube mashup video released by Israeli musician Kutiman ("Give It Up") featured a 4-second ostinato assembled from pieces of one of Deutscher's early videos.īy 2020, Deutscher's official YouTube channel has gathered more than ten million views and 118,000 subscribers. He explained that the family had been unprepared for the intense exposure, and that they view as their most important tasks protecting her and ensuring that she has a happy childhood. Guy Deutscher spoke of his concerns surrounding Alma's initial press coverage. Television crews arrived at her family home the next day. A new Mozart?", with a link to one of Deutscher's videos. And after it finished I asked my parents 'How could music be so beautiful?'"ĭeutscher's initial media exposure may be traced to writer and comedian Stephen Fry publicising her YouTube channel when she was seven, by writing: "Simply mind-blowing: Alma Deutscher playing her own compositions. Within less than a year she was playing Handel sonatas." In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times, Deutscher said: "I remember when I was three and I was listening to a lullaby by Richard Strauss, I loved it! I especially loved the harmony I always call it the Strauss harmony now. She was so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end, so we decided to try to find her a teacher. "For her third birthday I bought her a little violin as a toy. According to her father, she could name the notes on a piano when she was two. At seven, she composed her first short opera, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. These first written notations were unclear, but by six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata. At four she was composing and improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her compositions. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Backgroundĭeutscher was born in Basingstoke in 2005, the daughter of literature professor Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and Israeli linguist Guy Deutscher. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. At the age of twelve, Deutscher premiered her first piano concerto. premiere a year later at Opera San Jose was released on DVD by Sony Classical.
At the age of ten she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At age seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Alma Elizabeth Deutscher is an English child prodigy, composer, pianist and violinist.Īt age five, she composed her first piano sonata.
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