Works
At age six, Alma Deutscher completed her first piano sonata, and at age 7 a short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams. At age 9, she composed a concerto for violin and orchestra. Her first full-length opera, Cinderella, has been produced on three continents and her first piano solo album, From My Book of Melodies, was released by Sony Classical and is published by G. Schirmer. Deutscher has composed many more works including operas, orchestral pieces, chamber music, and songs.
Concerto in g minor
The first movement contrasts dark and dramatic G-minor sections. Deutscher describes it as, “an army going to war with radiant D major themes”. The second movement of the Violin Concerto in G minor is all about yearning, and the third movement is very happy and jokingly playful. Watch Alma Deutscher perform her 35-minute Violin Concerto in G Minor below.
Cinderella
Composed in 2015, Deutscher adapted the classic Cinderella fairy-tale to revolve around music. Cinderella is a composer, slave worked as a copyist by her step-mother, who runs an opera house. The prince is a poet, derided at court for his artistic leanings and lack of interest in the affairs of the state. Cinderella and the prince will find one another, just as words find their melody. And once Cinderella flees from the ball, the prince will search for her not with the aid of a glass slipper, but with the beginning of the melody, which only she will know how to continue. Watch a clip from the opera below.