![]() But in the end, the soloist and the orchestra make peace, and continue playing happily together. During the movement, there is quite a lot of argument between the soloist and the orchestra. The third movement is a set of variations on a theme which I heard in the middle of the night when I was eight years old. At six, she completed her first piano sonata, and at 7 a short opera, The Sweeper of Dream. Soon afterwards she started improvising simple melodies on the piano. She started playing the piano when she was two years old and the violin when she was three. She started playing the piano when she was two years old and the violin when she was three. Alma Deutscher, born 2005, is a composer, violinist and pianist. The movement is in a rather unusual key, B-flat minor, which is perhaps not so comfortable for the orchestra, but it’s the key in which I first heard the melody in my head, and I did not want to change it. Alma Deutscher, born 2005, is a composer, violinist and pianist. The main theme of the second movement came to me when I was very sad, I was improvising on my grandmother’s piano a few days after she died. 0:00 / 4:38 Watch a prodigy create - from four notes in a hat 60 Minutes 1. ![]() ![]() The darkness tries to come back at some points, especially at the very end, but the light finally overcomes it. The rest of the introduction is in minor, but the entrance of the piano brings back the light, with a much happier version of the orchestral theme. The orchestral introduction has just two happy bars of E-flat major in the beginning, but it then plunges into darkness on the third bar. The first movement represents the conflict between darkness and light. And how, just before the final chord, she charmingly dissolves the harmonic knot which had been tied with a harmonic Coup in the first bars of the concerto-that mesmerizes. Alma Deutscher’s music is full of extraordinarily original ideas and genuine surprises … Even just the transition from the cadenza to the coda of the first movement reveals the composer’s originality. Leading Austrian critic Wilhelm Sinkovicz wrote about the concerto: “The world turns in a circle, but always sprouts new, beautiful flowers, if one only lets them sprout. ![]() This was the world premiere of Alma Deutscher’s piano concerto in July 2017 at the Carinthian Summer Festival, with Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Joji Hattori. Tuesday 07 November 2017 11:39 Comments 12-year-old piano prodigy creates beauty from four randomly chose notes All it takes Alma Deutscher is four notes and 40 seconds. ![]()
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