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One needn’t think too hard to come up with a list of celebrated children who seem somehow less exceptional when their baby fat comes off and their permanent teeth come in.
We’ll eat Werner Herzog’s shoe if Alma Deutscher’s name is on it.
When she was 11, conductor Johannes Wildner told the New York Times that “she is not good because she is young. She is good because she is extremely talented and has matured very early.”
Her parents were the first to recognize her extraordinary abilities.
It’s nice when a musically gifted child is born to parents who are not only willing to cultivate that seed, they understand that their 18 month old sings with perfect pitch…
She was nearing the age of reason when the general public became acquainted with the pigtailed composer who played piano and violin, loved improvising and drew constant, not universally welcome comparisons to Mozart.
At seven, she penned a short opera inspired by “The Sweeper of Dreams”, a short story by Neil Gaiman.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnsdSgXf0U
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