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Amaryllis

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Sun Nov 26, 2017, 12:51 AM Nov 2017

12 yr old girl played piano/violin by age 3, composed by age 4, wrote first opera age 10. Amazing!

Video at link. Transcript as well. It will make you happy!

The 12-year-old prodigy whose "first language" is Mozart

Alma Deutscher was playing piano and violin by the time she was 3 years old and wrote her first opera at 10. For her, making music seems as natural as breathing

We cannot explain what you are about to hear. Science doesn't know enough about the brain to make sense of Alma. Alma Deutscher is an accomplished British composer in the classical style. She is a virtuoso on the piano and the violin. And she is 12 years old. She's different from other prodigies we have known, because at the age of ten she wrote an opera, which demands comprehensive mastery; not just how to play the piano, but, what is the range of the oboe? What can a cellist play? We don't know how she understands it all. It seems that Alma was born that way.


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Scott Pelley: When did the composing begin?

Alma Deutscher: When I was four, I just had these melodies and ideas in my head, and I would play them down at the piano. And sometimes my parents would think that I was just remembering music that I'd already heard before. But I said, "No, no, these are my melodies, that I composed."

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Scott Pelley: Do you have any idea where this comes from?

Alma Deutscher: I don't really know, but it's really very normal to me to go around -- walk around and having melodies popping into my head. It's the most normal thing in the world. For me, it's strange to walk around and not to have melodies popping into my head. So if I was interviewing you, I would say, "Well, tell me Scott. How does it feel not having melodies popping into your head?



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Scott Pelley: I usually don't ask people your age this question, but, what have you learned about life?

Alma Deutscher: Well, I know that that life is not always beautiful. That there's also ugliness in the world. That's why I, I've learned, that I want to write beautiful music because I want to make the world a better place.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-12-year-old-prodigy-whose-first-language-is-mozart/

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12 yr old girl played piano/violin by age 3, composed by age 4, wrote first opera age 10. Amazing! (Original Post) Amaryllis Nov 2017 OP
She is fantastic, unbelievably great... GReedDiamond Nov 2017 #1
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