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. Deutscher was born in Basingstoke in 2005, the daughter of literature professor Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and Israeli linguist Guy Deutscher.
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