From My Book of Melodies

Description

This is the first publication to feature the piano music of young English composer and pianist Alma Deutscher, complementing her recorded album on Sony Classical. Critics describe her work as “indeed miraculous,” having “the poetry of Franz Schubert…the grace, lightness and brilliance of Mozart,” and “wit and spirit.”

Contents:
For Antonia • The Lonely Pine-Tree • Summer in Mondsee • Up in the Sky • When the Day Falls into Darkness • The Star of Hope • In Memoriam • The Chase • Sixty Minutes Polka • I Think of You (G-flat major and G major versions) • Siren Sounds Waltz

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born February 2005 in Basingstoke) is an English composer, pianist and violinist.

At age five, she composed her first piano sonata. At age seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At the age of ten she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta. The U.S. premiere a year later at Opera San Jose was released on DVD by Sony Classical. At the age of twelve, Deutscher premiered her first piano concerto. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall in December 2019.