Mozart. People compare you to Mozart. What do you think of that?

~ Live & Learn

It takes Alma Deutscher just four notes and forty seconds to improvise an impressive short piano sonata right before 60 Minutes cameras. That alone is remarkable – but she’s also just 12 years old…Alma, a musical prodigy who, by the age of 10, had composed a full-length opera. She’s also a virtuoso on the violin and piano, where the music flows from her fingers as effortlessly as the breath from her body.

Scott Pelley: There is another composer who had an opera premiere in Vienna at the age of 11. Mozart. People compare you to Mozart. What do you think of that?

Alma Deutscher:  I know that they mean it to be very nice to compare me to Mozart.

Scott Pelley: It could be worse.

Alma Deutscher: Of course, I love Mozart and I would have loved him to be my teacher. But I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be the second Mozart.

~ Scott Pelley, Watch a prodigy create – from four notes in a hat (CBS 60 Minutes, November 5, 2017)

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42 thoughts on “Mozart. People compare you to Mozart. What do you think of that?”

  20. Now, this is interesting…. I wondered how I ‘found’ you…. and now, just ‘overflying’ the posts on your blog, I found this… I’m on a ‘founding’ journey 🙂
    BUT at some time this year, I also ‘found’ Alma Deutscher, and as a person very interested in all things music (singing in choirs, playing the cello and violin), I was thrilled to come across this English Wunderkind. I have no idea if this is ‘speaking’ to you but I indicate here a link to the film on/by Alma, called Finding Cinderella.

    I think she got me as she got everybody else when she stated that she didn’t want to be an Also Mozart, but just ALMA…. Her mind and genius are so outstanding that my mind boggles. She also speaks incredibly fast, can’t ever wait to get all her words out, has a razor sharp mind and seems to have stayed very ‘normal’ too….
    May I tell you something else?: You obviously don’t believe (too much) in God, but God IS with us, He’s not just dropping by from time to time 🙂 – But humans can either invite or ‘outvite’ him, send him away or whatever…. And humans have the freedom of choice. I for one am glad to think that He is with me at all times. Makes it easier to ‘master’ the complications of daily struggle. (Hope of not causing any offence, but this is a late reaction anyway, and so I might only have raised your hackles…! – in all friendship, of course)

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  21. oh sorry, I only waned to give you the link not the whole TV screen… IF you can tell me how to change that, please do tell me. I only watch YT on my computer screen and have no idea of putting these things on a page.

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