Amazingly, he's said to have never had a piano lesson, and taught himself how to play by watching YouTube piano tutorials. Produced by Robert G.Incredible Chopin from a self-taught 8-year-oldĪ stunning virtuosic display from this youngster on a street piano. But in a world, too often ugly, and too often overburdened with explanation, it's nice to take a moment and wonder. We cannot know how Alma Deutscher channels her music like a portal in time. That's why I, I've learned, that I want to write beautiful music because I want to make the world a better place. Scott Pelley: I usually don't ask people your age this question, but, what have you learned about life?Īlma Deutscher: Well, I know that that life is not always beautiful. Alma is privately tutored and homeschooled alongside her sister Helen who also knows her way around the piano and the tree house. The Deutscher's moved to the English countryside to be near a famous school of music. And quite often, they come up with very interesting things.Įven the real world is magical. And sometimes when I'm stuck with something, when I'm composing, I go to them and ask them for advice. Scott Pelley: So how many composers do you have in your head?Īlma Deutscher: I have lots of composers. Alma told us that she made up a country where imaginary composers write, each in his own style of emotion. And one of them is called Antonin Yellowsink.Īntonin Yellowsink, Alma's imaginary composing friend, is an insight into the music of her mind. Scott Pelley: What does a girl your age know about dark and dramatic?Īlma Deutscher: Well yes, that's an interesting question because you know what? I'm a very happy person so I have lots of imaginary composers. The first movement of the violin concerto is quite the opposite.
I want to make the people who listen to it laugh and be happy. This is her composition, Violin Concerto Number One.Īlma Deutscher: It's extremely jolly and very happy and jocular that movement. That's why I, I've learned, that I want to write beautiful music because I want to make the world a better place."įortunately she doesn't have to choose. "I know that that life is not always beautiful. Scott Pelley: Well, people can fall in love with composers.Īlma Deutscher: That would be a bad sign, yes. Alma DeutscherĪlma Deutscher: I think that it makes much more sense if he falls in love with her because she composed this amazing melody to his poem, because he thinks that she's his soul mate, because he understands her. And in the ball she sings it to the prince. It seemed demeaning to Alma that Cinderella was attractive because her feet were small so she cast Cinderella as a composer and the prince, as a poet.Īlma Deutscher: Cinderella finds a poem that was composed by the prince and she loves it and she's inspired to put music to it. The story Alma tells in her opera, is Cinderella, but it's not the Cinderella you know. "I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be the second Mozart." But then actually sitting down and developing the melodies and that's the really difficult part, having to tell a real story with music. That's as unimaginable to her as it is strange for other people to think about a girl with melodies in her head.Īlma Deutscher: I love getting the melodies. Janie Deutscher: She wouldn't be able to imagine life without dreams and stories and music.
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