The work has been performed in German in Vienna, and in English by Opera San Jose in California, conducted by Jane Glover. This work, too, was revised after a premiere in Israel in 2015, she expanded the orchestration to include first 20 and then 44 musicians. She modified the plot to place it in an opera house. She has said that some of the music came to her in a dream. She wrote the Dance of the Solent Mermaids for orchestra and a Violin Concerto in G major at nine (revising the concerto at 12) and began the composition of her full-length opera Cinderella, which she finished when she was 12. By nine, Deutscher was mastering orchestral forms. Her creativity has been of intense interest to interviewers, whom she has told that although melodies come to her spontaneously, sometimes while jumping rope, to assemble them into longer compositions requires hard work. By 2019, the channel had amassed nine million views. Her talents were publicized by British comedian Stephen Fry, who posted a link to her YouTube channel when she was seven. Immediately bored at school, Deutscher withdrew and has been home-schooled. ![]() Her linguistic skills developed as rapidly as her musical ones the opera was adapted from a short story by Neil Gaiman. Deutscher quickly mastered larger forms, completing several piano trios and even a short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, over the next few years. She began to notate her piano improvisations, and by six, she had written a full-fledged Piano Sonata in E flat major and an Andante for violin. Deutscher took up piano at two and violin at three within a year she was playing Handel's violin sonatas. She learned to read music before she could read text. ![]() ![]() Her parents (an Israeli-born linguist father and a mother who was a scholar of Old English literature, both amateur musicians) noticed her musical ability when she was just 20 months old and began to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: she wasn't yet able to pronounce the words, but her rendition was pitch-perfect. Deutscher composed a piano sonata at age six and a short opera at seven.Īlma Deutscher was born in February 2005 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. A true child prodigy, Alma Deutscher has been dubbed England's "Little Mozart," although both she and her family reject the term.
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