She's so sincere. You can see pure love for music in her face. She's not showing off or forcing it -- it flows naturally through her fingers from somewhere deep within her soul. It's truly beautiful c:
I was fascinated from her interview by the Israeli TV program when she was 8 years old. (. Lasted 28 m ). She played both instruments Very nice and her sonata was beautiful. Heh Answers to the questions w
This is truly the Lord's handiwork. God gave her this beautiful gift and she is so humble in showing off her talents. She said she receives melodies and songs in her dreams; yep- that's how God works :)
Yeah lol! I paused the vid after she chose the notes and improvised myself, and came up with nearly the exact same thing she did, just in a more romantic style, and more complex. Virtuosically complex, not structurally. She came up with a lot better structure than I did XD and I guess she's like five years younger in this vid too!
she said that she hears all the harmonies in her head, knows them for everything. When she imagines a piece or melody in her mind, it aint just a single line of music, sometimes she imagines a whole orchestra playing, or opera singer singing it, something she is making up - I guess that makes it easy if you can imagine the whole orchestration on the spot lol. I guess this is some sort of OCD lol.
No matter how many times I see this done with this girl, and no matter who’s in the background, they never fail to shake their heads and look at her like they’re asking themselves, “What majesty did I just witness?” XD
darren motise You evidently didn't watch the video thoroughly, or see any others like it. That, or you responded to the wrong person. Either way, talking to people like that doesn't paint you in a good light. Is it impossible for you to turn away from innocent things rather than insult people about them?
That might be because theyre not musicians and therefore havent noticed that every time she does this exercise, her 'composition' is practically interchangeable with her other exercises? I feel bad for this girl because, at least from what Ive seen her do in these demonstrations, shes not nearly as special as people are telling her she is. So, when shes in her 20s, struggling at some music conservatory, not the next Beethoven and realizing that the thing she sacrificed the most magical time of her life for is never going to happen, what is that going to do for her sense of worth?
Spring Bloom wrong, she is happy. it IS already working for her. whats wrong with you? she is creating her own happiness not by basking in her glory but by inventing melodies. do you feel equally sorry for kids that only know how to operate screens, do you pity them because one day they wont even be able to write, imagin, doing anything anymore because the have lost considerable skills doing what they like doing and excelling in what makes them happy???🙄 alma deutscher is a very unusual girl to say the least. i enjoy her joy and the music she creates. Mach nur weiter liebe Alma, Du machst uns auch glücklich mit Deiner wunderschönen, eigenartigen Musik❤️
Tazinova when i told my dad i want to learn piano ( age 11 ) he didn't took it seriously, and kind of underestimate me , and then when I'm in my second year of highschool and about to go to college he want me to learn piano, it's too late for that.
They say that of all the prodigies, the musical variety requires the most support from outside. She is indeed lucky to be born to Cambridge profs who had a love of music themselves. Think of all the talent that rusts inexorably to the gutter from all the broken homes and miserable lives they're born into. It breaks the heart, but at least we know what's possible with Alma.
Aside from Alma's obvious incredible talents, one of her most welcoming traits is her ability to uplift one's spirits with her beautiful personality and charm. So refreshing. Thanks Alma.
Her improv with the gentleman was like a scene out of 'Amadeus'. This kind of talent hasn't been seen in decades, perhaps even a century or two. Incredible.
Rare? Then, i would be rare too. My 2 ex-piano teachers too. Some other students from one of the 2 teachers too. And those are only those who i know personally. Improvising is nothing special
David Wardley, watch her on the 60MIN where she blunders and confuses a B with a B flat. That's not rare at all! Most of my piano students confuse notes all the time :)
Hi Darren. She's good, but certainly no genius or rare, as you say, by any stretch of the imagination. Her improvisation here is entirely based on a simple right hand melody, left hand simple accompaniment. See the great masters, such as Mozart or Bach, see any of Bach's Inventions, or Mozart's classic 12 Variations (from which "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", an extremely simplified version, was adapted), and contrast their true masterpieces with this simplified improvisation. One obvious trademark, so to speak of the great masters is the ability to compose incredibly complex and high speed melodic phrases for both hands, at speeds up to 1/64th, 1/32nd and 1/16th notes, while this darling girl struggles greatly to maintain speeds barely reaching that of 1/8th notes, the left hand dragging behind. I heard maybe 1 or 2 simplified trills. Given that, she's lacking greatly in dexterity especially in the left hand, and while her improvisation are pleasant (might help if they first tuned the piano), nobody 200 years from now will remember who she was. No, none of my students were as talented, and that leads to my point here. She certainly has talent, but so what! No concert pianist who studied the great masters would dare for a second put her on par with any of the great musical masters, as she is light years away from Bach's Tocatta/Fugue in Dm, Mussorgsky's Picture at an Exhibition, not to mention the great compositions Beethoven wrote when completely deaf! You won't see any concert pianists as the Hollywood Bowl performing such slow and limited speeds as her, that is for sure. Talented yes, along with a billion other kids worldwide. Genius? Not even close. When her fingers match the speed, precision, complexity, beauty and melodic/harmonic genius of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons", let's write out the transcripts so piano teachers in the year 2218 can rave to their students the genius of this little girls improvisations - I think not! Talented yes! Genius? Not even close. Cute and well behaved? Adorable. But please let's not put her in a category she hardly fits into. When the Philharmonic Orchestra decide to do an arrangement of her works to perform at the next Hollywood Bowl concert, please let me know, I'll treat you to a front row seat, LOL! Thanks so for the comment, and you have a deal: when you point me to her next Opera, I'll point you one of my students. Take care, and let's talk more if you like, not hear to argue, I just think we should call a spade a spade, thanks again, thanks so much for posting this, don't worry, will still give a thumbs up, she was very pleasant, a beautiful voice! btw. my mentor Dick Grove was not even really a pianist (arranger/composer/improviser) and he could run circles around this girl with his eyes close. Yet he'd be the last to admit he's anywhere on a genius level.Talented, extremely. But as good as he was, and he blow this girl out of the water, no way he was a modern day Bach or Chopin. Please, if you think she's on a genius, point out by example what she plays here qualifies her as such, I found it very simple, and yes some of my students could play as good, but would need to practice up a bit more. Thanks, please comment, if you like, not a contest, only my observation after 20 years teaching kids. btw, see Rick Beato's son, now he a amazing, I'd tend to put him on genius bar before her, he can name extremely dissonant clusters, with precision, wow!
Peter Stanton but here when your talking about Beethoven. Bach et al your talking about composers who were much much older than Alma is here. The only one you can compare of a similar age is Mozart. Alma has written her own compositions and a full opera and she's just turned 13.Come on trying to compare much older mature musicians. I love Beethoven but his first symphony is ordinary and yet he was much older.
bsable79 I’m glad I saw this comment, I thought I was going nuts watching the other video! I kept rewinding it and thinking ‘she’s definitely playing the wrong note there’
As a musician myself I used to wish I was born special like her. And sometimes I still do. But then I remember that whether you’re born special, you can always become special. Hard work is JUST as admirable as being blessed. And either way every talent has to be nurtured to end up like this.
She uses the piano like most of us use our voice. The great difference is that the voice can sing just one theme, she is playing with many voices at once. Beautiful.
Her Classical musical background is so ingrained in her! She develops these four notes beautifully! Still retaining the charm and child like tonus! Bravo!
Did you notice that the 1rst and 3rd notes were the same? So she really only had 3 notes to work with. And the 1rst and last were a perfect dissonance [half-tone apart]: small wonder she graciously remarked "difficult" -(Understatement of the year).
Oh my!!!! I have no words... ok...I have a few...This is quite possibly the most beautiful brilliance I have ever witnessed. The music, the talent and the child are extraordinary! BRAVO!!!!
I'm amazed, delighted, inspired, and awed by her logical progression and complex arrangements, her understanding in how to gracefully transition, playfully add, fit all into an sound integrated whole. Omg, she makes me so happy! Forget improvising, she is composing on the spot!
Lucie Wang In music, it is helpful, but not required to have perfect pitch. You just need to be a better instrument player than they are and then _they'll_ be envious of you instead :)
I have seen this young lady on UA-cam many times. Any time she pops up I take the time to enjoy a pleasant thing and to appreciate much of the good in humanity.
Just about anyone can learn to play a piano with enough practice. But Alma is a true musical genius. You can tell that music is her true passion. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world.
We couldn't meet Mozart, or Liszt, or Beethoven. But how lucky and blessed are us meeting this prodige girl. My God, four notes and in seconds such walts.
That's what a real super musician looks like. Reading music and understanding scales, and tempo and harmony is why she is so good. She's using every tool a real musician uses.
Most talented girl in her generation for sure! Yes … she’s so humble Feels she has to share her wonderful gift with the entire world Alma is doing a marvelous job 🎊 🎉
Non-pianists and non-composers will likely not "get" this. As both, I do. What this girl is doing , after being provided four random notes, is a feat that shouldn't even be do-able. Yet, she does. She takes those notes, creates a new logical "chord" out of them, and then on the spot, creates and performs a complex piano piece based on this newly invented chord. It's as if someone handed Elon Musk random pics of four different car parts, and based on those pics he was able to (1)create a 3D drawing of a non-existent car and (2) then take that car is drive it around for you in VR. This is pretty astonishing, and only an extreme-high-IQ is likely to pull this off. What she just did, is very similar to some of the eyewitness accounts of performances Mozart pulled off as a child.
Admittedly, I was not a musical prodigy at 11 or 12, but as a longtime songwriter, I can tell you that this is a bit of sleight of hand on her part. You can *begin* any melody with any four notes, then veer off into something else, which is what she does. It’s also trivial for creative musicians to bring the mechanics of thousands of hours of piano playing (or in my case guitar playing) in a variety of styles to bear on those four notes, embellishing them and extending them, coming back to them, veering off in some different direction. The big deal here is that she’s still a kid doing it, which is impressive. This tells me that she has eaten, slept and breathed piano probably since she was a toddler.
she did it two more times that I know of. On US TV, and on an Israel program. Same thing. Took some random notes and created a full piece out of them, that sounded just great. complete pieces of music. The US TV she created a wonderful melody, that she even said she put in her notebook.
Right... once she figured out how to do it, she can do it repeatedly with different sets of notes. If you listen to enough of them, they all sound sort of the same, just with minor variations. It’s as if Paul McCartney kept writing “Martha My Dear” with slight variations instead of writing completely different songs. But it works for this fun challenge she gives herself. Many can learn how to do it, but it takes a lot of practice and a good ear and perhaps an innate ability to compose melody. The impressive thing here is that she learned how to do it by age 11. It helps that she has perfect pitch as well.
Who knows what astonishing music this remarkable girl will go on to create in her life. It's going to be very interesting. There is something really quite remarkable and profound about her, like she's connected to something very deep.
@@mtierney1012 From My Book of Melodies - www.amazon.co.uk/My-Book-Melodies-Alma-Deutscher/dp/B07WX7JWN6 - And the official posting of this on UA-cam: ua-cam.com/video/Fx4MKh0vNyY/v-deo.html
Can't imagine what it would be like to have her Talent, and confidence, and combine that with a beautiful soul. She is just so natural, and down to earth, what you see, is what you get. Have no doubts what so ever, her name will be in the history books, now, and forever. Don't ever change, Alma, just a beautiful soul .
The thing I love about improv is no one ever in the whole of the human race is ever going to play it exactly the same way as you do again, down to every minute detail. It's just one moment in time never to be repeated exactly the same way again. It's as if it comes from nowhere and then disappears again as if it never were. If you are just sitting at the piano improvising and notes flow out before you remember them or before they are recorded, those exact combinations of notes will never appear ever again. Music is infinite. That's what I love about it.
Very amazing, if there is something called ULTRA gifted and to a depth most of us, me, cant comprehend. Mozart, Beethove, Bernstein, she exceeds all of them. WOW
stephen bardfield The result of several years intensive professional musical training ,without distraction such as computers or school. Hothouse flower. I just hope she develops and matures in other parts of her life.
Yes, no! She does not exceeds them in any way.She is able to stuck around some classical patterns. I am NOT a genius and do not declare such nonsense about me. But when I was about her age I improvised-and I was used to do this since I was 5 years old-about music by Martinu and any other composer I heard on radio on the piano and church organ. I did this alone for me but nether for any "astounding" listeners. It is not such astounding sometimes(and more often one could think) this occurs to young musicians. I do not like her because it is obvious she thinks about herself very great and seeks about situations to show her talent. She seems- in my opinion- to be educated and rised to be full of herself and to demonstrate it. No, this is not my cup of tea. She should be educated quietly and very good to not only play her own music, which is childish and not genial. I have no Interest to hear some music by her sounding like Mozart going childish again in a most uninteresting manner. If you want to listen to really prodigys than listen to Korngolds works he wrote at age 11- 15 or Joey Alexander. Those are really wonders. I whish Alma the best and also whish her, to make an end with this "demonstrations" of her talent. This is a way to nowhere I am very sure. If she does not grow up with results showing this- playing other composers works like Mozart or Beethoven- she will fail. Playing her childish Violin concerto if 16 years old in the future this would be the end. And in this moment all people, who love her so much now as a little girl, will quit their love. It is as simple as this. The musical businness is a tough one and does not care about former prodigies if they fail. So please be carefull about young Alma!
Schlechtriem,sorry you talk a lot of shit!!! Go yet public and play before a great audience,500 people or more with a lot of cameras!!!yes yes you are much more clever than Sir Rattle and Zubin Mehta and Barenboim ,Sophie Mutter .I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE WORLD UGLY.! And girls with ugly torned jeans.In the name of Alma!
at 1:22 just love the way he shakes his head in astonishment... God gives wonderful gifts....such as music and this child.... no wonder the angels sang as God created the universe.
No, she is just amazingly talented. Nothing to do with God, because if he loved us all equally, why would he make some people with advantages and not others? That's not loving equally...
@@versacegang4140 Her gifts have everything to do with God, seeing that He is the Creator. Furthermore, it is only people who equate advantages with love, just as you are doing right now- but God doesn't do that. That's not how God shows us how He loves us. That's not how He operates. God gives and takes away, but it doesn't mean He loves us any more or any less. He loves each individual the same regardless of their talents or advantages b/c it is not our advantages, our gifts, or what we aquire that give us our value in God's eyes- it's the simple fact that He created us in love, and with love bc He IS love. Advantages will never equal love to God b/c He doesn't think in the same limited, small minded ways that humans do. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, His ways are higher than our ways. He loves us immensely no matter what gifts we do, or do not have. God is amazing.
@@GameChanger597 You have a simplistic view of the world. This kind of ability comes from a lottery mixture of genetic predisposition, resources (that she was born into a family who had the will and financial means to support her talents) and daily hard work. God is almost certainly a fiction, but what really grates me about your comment is how it dismisses the dedication and sacrifice that artists put into their craft. These things don't just happen effortlessly. Talent can only take you so far. This is the product of countless hours of studying, practising, making mistakes and learning from them. It's blood, sweat and tears, not fairy dust.
@@versacegang4140 Reincarnation is the reason some have more advantages than others in certain aspects. We're playing out our karmic hand and there's nothing random in the cards which we've been dealt. We're either here to give back, pay it forward, teach, learn, grow, strive, etc... In some instances, people must suffer in order to endure the suffering they've meted out to others.
VERSACE GANG Would you really want everyone to just be the same exact thing? When someone special comes along, they are to be appreciated. Such people are called to different lives than the rest. Loving doesn’t mean that everyone just gets whatever they want. That’s destructive, not loving.
Pure Gift from Above…. How else can this be explained? I’ve never seen or heard anyone as talented at Alma….. it’s so easy for her…. So it’s Divine Intervention and unexplainable! And what a lovely girl she is….. not at all pompous….
So to compose, suddenly, with extreme rapidity ... with Bach-style passages, to switch to the style of Chopin, Mozart and Beethovem ... absolutely fantastic. Compor assim, de improviso, com extrema rapidez... com passagens ao estilo de Bach, mudar para o estilo de Chopin, Mozart e Beethovem... absolutamente fantástico.
Simplemente..., BRILLANTE!!! Una verdadera GENIO, preciosa, creativa y versátil. Un ÁNGEL bajado del cielo, para nuestro deleite y regocijo. Un regalo de Dios!!! 😍💓😘
There is some sort of pure joy that needs to be experienced for someone to be able to smile during an improvisation. I would be concentrating too much. I can barely smile through piano pieces I’m familiar with...
It was a pretty impressive improvisation, it can actually be a sketch for a more complete piece. Her improv on 60 minutes was even more impressive, and would make a very nice Sonata when polished up.
Her "polished up" piece ended up being called the "60-minute Polka" - probably her most energetic work to date. Parts approach a sort of Joplin-Chopin combo genre that I've never heard before. Just fantastic stuff from her, eh?
What the what? Who's spirit came back from the dead and chose this young lady as a host to engage such brilliance. Wow.. this is so hard to do..pick 4 notes and less than a minute you design a piece with more than 4 different movement to it? What the what? Brilliant Talent out of the world... Someones spirit came and took over and graced this young lady.... wow... Just wow.
just search "cbs overtime' and deutscher and prodigy too if need be, its in their feed - there is no separate url. They also did about 15 to 20 minutes on her the program 60 Minutes on Sunday night - I don't know if that is available online..
Yes, I saw that too. And it IS a gifted girl. But improvising is doing things which you have often done before. A container of things you can do at random. Viewed this way in the improvisation you mentioned she did decide to use a Bb instead of the B natural which was drawn. And from there on the texture and rhythms used are quite similar. So, there sort of a template, which is why she thinks 40 seconds first, to work it all out. Very intelligent and well played though...
I imagine if she were in privacy should would be trying other things. But this is for TV show, so you gotta pull it off to form, I think she does this type of thing at her concerts as well where she asks for notes, and on one occasion that I saw she asked for a theme to improvise on. But each time she manages to put together a very nice and pleasant to listen to and flowing piece, shows that these sorts of skills are child's play to her lol. And she did say with Arik that one of her development exercises is to be given a Base line and then to improvise to it which is an even harder exercise.
Would love to see her improvise a 3-part fugue on the Royal Theme, the same one J.S. Bach was given by Frederick the Great when he visited his palace in Potsdam in 1747. This girl's talent is VERY impressive, but much of her extemporaneous creation revolves around sequences, Alberti bass lines and the circle of fifths. Bach's improvisational genius was on a whole other level. Check out the Ricercar a 3 in the Musical Offering to see what I mean. They say it's the actual version, note-for-note that he played on the fly before the king in the antechamber. Nevertheless this girl is certainly AWESOME! Love her.
It might be a bit too much to compare 12 year old Alma with adult Bach, the greatest improvisor of all time. Anyways, in a recent radio program Alma improvised a three-voice fugue, unfortunately we only heard the ending.
diese kleine tolle Maus, dieses talentiertes Mädchen, ist ein Brocken, der musikalisch auf uns noch zukommen wird. Ich habe noch nie bei meinen Schülern so ein Gespür bemerkt!
apologies for my breathing its my recording off TV
Darren Kilgariff hahahahahhhhahahha
You should do something about that.
Darren Kilgariff xd
Good grief, it's not PORN!
...oh well, to each his own I guess.
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She's so sincere. You can see pure love for music in her face. She's not showing off or forcing it -- it flows naturally through her fingers from somewhere deep within her soul. It's truly beautiful c:
I was fascinated from her interview by the Israeli TV program when she was 8 years old.
(. Lasted 28 m ). She played both instruments
Very nice and her sonata was beautiful. Heh
Answers to the questions w
Indeed.. I agree
Yes, that's what I want to say!
The best for you, Alma!
This is truly the Lord's handiwork. God gave her this beautiful gift and she is so humble in showing off her talents. She said she receives melodies and songs in her dreams; yep- that's how God works :)
Everly Green Absolutely a God given gift
She says, "Difficult" when finished laying out the cards. I believe her "difficult" is ever so slightly different than mine.
Yeah, to me impossible. Easy to her would be impossible to me. I have ZERO musical ability!
*Slightly*
Yeah lol! I paused the vid after she chose the notes and improvised myself, and came up with nearly the exact same thing she did, just in a more romantic style, and more complex. Virtuosically complex, not structurally. She came up with a lot better structure than I did XD and I guess she's like five years younger in this vid too!
@@JoshuavanderVeen No, you didn't
@@sanjaywilliams6563 Actually yes I did it's not that hard.
Her understanding of harmonies is so mature, not to speak of from an 11 yr old. She is indeed a rarest gifted kind to come along.
she said that she hears all the harmonies in her head, knows them for everything. When she imagines a piece or melody in her mind, it aint just a single line of music, sometimes she imagines a whole orchestra playing, or opera singer singing it, something she is making up - I guess that makes it easy if you can imagine the whole orchestration on the spot lol. I guess this is some sort of OCD lol.
She just composed piano concerto and is 10 times mor3 complex
@@akanecortich8197 i must be weird or genius as i do that all the time throughout the day.
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I think her parents made a pact with Mozarts ghost.
His only demand was that his name was placed inside hers: A MA DEU S
taon2004 very good my friend but you forgot the L ☺
I guess the parents thought it would be a bit too much to outright name her amadeus so they settled for a blend in. I suppose ;)
AlMA DEUtScher...
HOLY SHIT.
Wow, that's pretty spooky!...Ha!
If she can do this within under a minute, imagine how beautiful a piece can be if she has a week or longer to work on it
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart yea
Check out her siren waltz!
Lol,... look at her violin concerto
Ur one to talk amadeus
She copies your music
No matter how many times I see this done with this girl, and no matter who’s in the background, they never fail to shake their heads and look at her like they’re asking themselves, “What majesty did I just witness?” XD
True Majesty. Glorious Gloriana. In its truest, purest form.
Sarah Johnston Oh for fuck's sake. Really? Write a few poems and call it a day.
darren motise You evidently didn't watch the video thoroughly, or see any others like it. That, or you responded to the wrong person. Either way, talking to people like that doesn't paint you in a good light. Is it impossible for you to turn away from innocent things rather than insult people about them?
That might be because theyre not musicians and therefore havent noticed that every time she does this exercise, her 'composition' is practically interchangeable with her other exercises? I feel bad for this girl because, at least from what Ive seen her do in these demonstrations, shes not nearly as special as people are telling her she is. So, when shes in her 20s, struggling at some music conservatory, not the next Beethoven and realizing that the thing she sacrificed the most magical time of her life for is never going to happen, what is that going to do for her sense of worth?
Spring Bloom wrong, she is happy. it IS already working for her. whats wrong with you?
she is creating her own happiness not by basking in her glory but by inventing melodies.
do you feel equally sorry for kids that only know how to operate screens, do you pity them because one day they wont even be able to write, imagin, doing anything anymore because the have lost considerable skills doing what they like doing and excelling in what makes them happy???🙄
alma deutscher is a very unusual girl to say the least.
i enjoy her joy and the music she creates.
Mach nur weiter liebe Alma, Du machst uns auch glücklich mit Deiner wunderschönen, eigenartigen Musik❤️
She is lucky she was born into a family that has the resources to develop her talent.
Tazinova when i told my dad i want to learn piano ( age 11 ) he didn't took it seriously, and kind of underestimate me , and then when I'm in my second year of highschool and about to go to college he want me to learn piano, it's too late for that.
eu sou pobre estou passando ate fome as vezes mas nao desisto do que eu quero, estou mais pra um Haydn da vida que passou muitas dificuldades.
eu não vou deixar de compor por causa de fome
Rosnanda Arifa It is never too late, if you want it.
They say that of all the prodigies, the musical variety requires the most support from outside. She is indeed lucky to be born to Cambridge profs who had a love of music themselves. Think of all the talent that rusts inexorably to the gutter from all the broken homes and miserable lives they're born into. It breaks the heart, but at least we know what's possible with Alma.
The guy can't believe what he's seeing
Chalron Bjork I cant either. I love his head shake of disbelief lol
And Alma is almost apologetic for needing a minute to think...
40 SECONDS
You mean the 'pedophile'?
And I couldn't believe what I was watching and hearing.... a real genius!
Aside from Alma's obvious incredible talents, one of her most welcoming traits is her ability to uplift one's spirits with her beautiful personality and charm. So refreshing. Thanks Alma.
ABSOLUTELY !!
She's 12 y'o can do that things. And i'm 22 y'o just eat chips watching her 😂😂
Elin Danastri hey you still got some chips? :)
That is good too ha ha
Hahahah
LOL! I can't even drink beer!
Sleepy Mango 🤣
Her improv with the gentleman was like a scene out of 'Amadeus'. This kind of talent hasn't been seen in decades, perhaps even a century or two. Incredible.
captebbtide Korngold was in that league. Went to great film scores.
Unadulterated genius, quite incredible and very rare.
Rare? Then, i would be rare too. My 2 ex-piano teachers too. Some other students from one of the 2 teachers too. And those are only those who i know personally. Improvising is nothing special
David Wardley, watch her on the 60MIN where she blunders and confuses a B with a B flat. That's not rare at all! Most of my piano students confuse notes all the time :)
Are you trying to suggest your students are as talented as Alma? Peter. Pray point me to their Operas
Hi Darren. She's good, but certainly no genius or rare, as you say, by any stretch of the imagination. Her improvisation here is entirely based on a simple right hand melody, left hand simple accompaniment. See the great masters, such as Mozart or Bach, see any of Bach's Inventions, or Mozart's classic 12 Variations (from which "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", an extremely simplified version, was adapted), and contrast their true masterpieces with this simplified improvisation. One obvious trademark, so to speak of the great masters is the ability to compose incredibly complex and high speed melodic phrases for both hands, at speeds up to 1/64th, 1/32nd and 1/16th notes, while this darling girl struggles greatly to maintain speeds barely reaching that of 1/8th notes, the left hand dragging behind. I heard maybe 1 or 2 simplified trills. Given that, she's lacking greatly in dexterity especially in the left hand, and while her improvisation are pleasant (might help if they first tuned the piano), nobody 200 years from now will remember who she was. No, none of my students were as talented, and that leads to my point here. She certainly has talent, but so what! No concert pianist who studied the great masters would dare for a second put her on par with any of the great musical masters, as she is light years away from Bach's Tocatta/Fugue in Dm, Mussorgsky's Picture at an Exhibition, not to mention the great compositions Beethoven wrote when completely deaf! You won't see any concert pianists as the Hollywood Bowl performing such slow and limited speeds as her, that is for sure. Talented yes, along with a billion other kids worldwide. Genius? Not even close. When her fingers match the speed, precision, complexity, beauty and melodic/harmonic genius of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons", let's write out the transcripts so piano teachers in the year 2218 can rave to their students the genius of this little girls improvisations - I think not! Talented yes! Genius? Not even close. Cute and well behaved? Adorable. But please let's not put her in a category she hardly fits into. When the Philharmonic Orchestra decide to do an arrangement of her works to perform at the next Hollywood Bowl concert, please let me know, I'll treat you to a front row seat, LOL! Thanks so for the comment, and you have a deal: when you point me to her next Opera, I'll point you one of my students. Take care, and let's talk more if you like, not hear to argue, I just think we should call a spade a spade, thanks again, thanks so much for posting this, don't worry, will still give a thumbs up, she was very pleasant, a beautiful voice! btw. my mentor Dick Grove was not even really a pianist (arranger/composer/improviser) and he could run circles around this girl with his eyes close. Yet he'd be the last to admit he's anywhere on a genius level.Talented, extremely. But as good as he was, and he blow this girl out of the water, no way he was a modern day Bach or Chopin. Please, if you think she's on a genius, point out by example what she plays here qualifies her as such, I found it very simple, and yes some of my students could play as good, but would need to practice up a bit more. Thanks, please comment, if you like, not a contest, only my observation after 20 years teaching kids. btw, see Rick Beato's son, now he a amazing, I'd tend to put him on genius bar before her, he can name extremely dissonant clusters, with precision, wow!
Peter Stanton but here when your talking about Beethoven. Bach et al your talking about composers who were much much older than Alma is here. The only one you can compare of a similar age is Mozart. Alma has written her own compositions and a full opera and she's just turned 13.Come on trying to compare much older mature musicians. I love Beethoven but his first symphony is ordinary and yet he was much older.
Woah she actually got a b flat this time
In Germany note B is called H and Bb is B. That's why last time she called Bb B
@@viktorijasavostina7435 yes
Right... Another video I saw, she had a b natural and played b flats... It almost sounded identical in thematic development to this.
@@viktorijasavostina7435 no, she changed the note.
bsable79 I’m glad I saw this comment, I thought I was going nuts watching the other video! I kept rewinding it and thinking ‘she’s definitely playing the wrong note there’
As a musician myself I used to wish I was born special like her. And sometimes I still do. But then I remember that whether you’re born special, you can always become special. Hard work is JUST as admirable as being blessed. And either way every talent has to be nurtured to end up like this.
she has undoubtedly done about 10,000 hours as a 12 year old. cant just be born like that lol
She uses the piano like most of us use our voice. The great difference is that the voice can sing just one theme, she is playing with many voices at once. Beautiful.
Wasn't it Fanny Mendelssohn, who said "...singing with my fingers..." ? Almost 200 years before Alma!
Forever in awe of this girl, I just can't believe I'm lucky enough to live at the same time as her and witness her career
Alma Deutcher comes from another planet. She will be remembered as one of the greatest young musical prodigies in history.
this little angel enriches my life, so sparklingly present. Her presence on this planet alone makes life more beautiful. A gift from a higher world
well said....a gift to all indeed
Her Classical musical background is so ingrained in her! She develops these four notes beautifully! Still retaining the charm and child like tonus! Bravo!
I am so amazed at Alma's ability to improvise on short notice with 4 randomly selected notes for the composition and with no hesitation or error.
Did you notice that the 1rst and 3rd notes were the same? So she really only had 3 notes to work with. And the 1rst and last were a perfect dissonance [half-tone apart]: small wonder she graciously remarked "difficult" -(Understatement of the year).
This brought tears to my eyes. Not only is she a genius, but a beautiful soul.
I love her variations. Keep composing Alma. Variations are the road that changes from town to field, from mountain to the sea.
Oh my!!!! I have no words... ok...I have a few...This is quite possibly the most beautiful brilliance I have ever witnessed. The music, the talent and the child are extraordinary! BRAVO!!!!
Her style actually sounds like Motzart too. She must be the reincarnation of Motzart.
more like early beethoven
I, too, was thinking she's Mozart reincarnated.
Or she just studies their music a lot. And some talent as well; but she's not necessarily their reincarnation.
Or she has studied piano.
Throw in a little nuance of Chopin too.
I'm amazed, delighted, inspired, and awed by her logical progression and complex arrangements, her understanding in how to gracefully transition, playfully add, fit all into an sound integrated whole. Omg, she makes me so happy! Forget improvising, she is composing on the spot!
I feel useless now
Mee too, blub~
i thought you said useless cow. i read too fast.
Why? Smh
EVERYONE was born talented! Just embracethe best you
Damn, me too. How insignificant am I?
this whole video I thought it was me breathing 😂
Kacy Anderson ha mine I'm afraid. Made her sound like Glenn Gould
Kacy Anderson I thought it was my vape going off 😮😂😂
DodgedABullet jajajaja me toooo ahhahaha
Same haha I had to take my headphones off as I was getting paranoid it was me 😂
I can't believe she can hear the notes in her head before playing them on the piano.
Perfect pitch
Practice
There's a large debate on whether perfect pitch is something you're born with or if you can get it with practice.
Juno Chun I think it's really hard. As a person who doesn't have perfect pitch, I quite envy the people who do have it
Lucie Wang In music, it is helpful, but not required to have perfect pitch. You just need to be a better instrument player than they are and then _they'll_ be envious of you instead :)
Absolutely incredible!! She could probably cut a whole CD in one hour!! Amazing!!
She has a CD for sale--it's very good, although she performs on only a few tracks.
Very promising young woman indeed!
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What a talented little girl, she's brilliant. God Bless.
I've seen this video a million times, still every time I watch it I smile in amazement in how good you are Alma
I have seen this young lady on UA-cam many times. Any time she pops up I take the time to enjoy a pleasant thing and to appreciate much of the good in humanity.
From the creator of "interesting" today we have... D I F F I C U L T
Hahahaha!
B flat or B natural....
I can't 😂
@@petraoehmichen5313 Double B-flat, my friend!
Darth Vader recorded this Video
I snorted so hard lol
LMAO
🤣🤣🤣
He already apologized.
Not ever angry, the guy apologized for Vader sounds ;)
The beginning is so beautiful little Alma. May God bless you more and more ...
I don’t know how I got here! But I’m so glad I did, she’s been sprinkled with Stardust such a rare and beautiful soul!
This child, now a young lady scares me. What a gift she has, an angel on earth!
This is just astonishing! Plus, it's enjoyable just to hear her speak using her melodious voice, combined with that charming English accent!
I feel so very privileged to be able to witness such talent and in so very charming a person. What wonders this world contains xxxx
Now do it at 15 notes per second on an electric gold plated violin/viola hybrid for 40hrs a day at 325 bpm.
Interesting
Twoset
@@vamvra5498 yes. Glad to see the twoset community is everywhere. 😁
@@someoneelse361 someday we'll rule the world
@@niajones8632 yes we will, Ling Ling will be our king and Eddy and Brett will be the generals along with famous soloists as commanders
Just about anyone can learn to play a piano with enough practice. But Alma is a true musical genius. You can tell that music is her true passion. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world.
Notice the perfect tonal ear she has. She reads the note and sings it accurately.
Yeah, a lot of people missed that (including me the first time): she sings the note *first, **_THEN_* plays it on the keyboard. Wow.
She has a beautiful soul. So young and incredible talented. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We couldn't meet Mozart, or Liszt, or Beethoven. But how lucky and blessed are us meeting this prodige girl. My God, four notes and in seconds such walts.
That's what a real super musician looks like. Reading music and understanding scales, and tempo and harmony is why she is so good. She's using every tool a real musician uses.
Most talented girl in her generation for sure!
Yes … she’s so humble
Feels she has to share her wonderful gift with the entire world
Alma is doing a marvelous job
🎊 🎉
Non-pianists and non-composers will likely not "get" this. As both, I do.
What this girl is doing , after being provided four random notes, is a feat that shouldn't even be do-able. Yet, she does. She takes those notes, creates a new logical "chord" out of them, and then on the spot, creates and performs a complex piano piece based on this newly invented chord. It's as if someone handed Elon Musk random pics of four different car parts, and based on those pics he was able to (1)create a 3D drawing of a non-existent car and (2) then take that car is drive it around for you in VR.
This is pretty astonishing, and only an extreme-high-IQ is likely to pull this off.
What she just did, is very similar to some of the eyewitness accounts of performances Mozart pulled off as a child.
Robert Jensen thank for explaining that figuratively.
Admittedly, I was not a musical prodigy at 11 or 12, but as a longtime songwriter, I can tell you that this is a bit of sleight of hand on her part. You can *begin* any melody with any four notes, then veer off into something else, which is what she does. It’s also trivial for creative musicians to bring the mechanics of thousands of hours of piano playing (or in my case guitar playing) in a variety of styles to bear on those four notes, embellishing them and extending them, coming back to them, veering off in some different direction. The big deal here is that she’s still a kid doing it, which is impressive. This tells me that she has eaten, slept and breathed piano probably since she was a toddler.
she did it two more times that I know of. On US TV, and on an Israel program. Same thing. Took some random notes and created a full piece out of them, that sounded just great. complete pieces of music. The US TV she created a wonderful melody, that she even said she put in her notebook.
Right... once she figured out how to do it, she can do it repeatedly with different sets of notes. If you listen to enough of them, they all sound sort of the same, just with minor variations. It’s as if Paul McCartney kept writing “Martha My Dear” with slight variations instead of writing completely different songs. But it works for this fun challenge she gives herself.
Many can learn how to do it, but it takes a lot of practice and a good ear and perhaps an innate ability to compose melody. The impressive thing here is that she learned how to do it by age 11. It helps that she has perfect pitch as well.
Perfect pitch, which can be either genetic or taught at a very young age, doesn't hurt either.
Who knows what astonishing music this remarkable girl will go on to create in her life. It's going to be very interesting. There is something really quite remarkable and profound about her, like she's connected to something very deep.
hope she kept that, interesting piece
When asked that ,she said probably not, as she has many other themes running ,and if she doesn't write them down soon, they are lost.
youtube kept it .
We now know. An expanded version appears on her latest cd.
@@jonathanday6692 what's it called? i'd love to hear it
@@mtierney1012 From My Book of Melodies - www.amazon.co.uk/My-Book-Melodies-Alma-Deutscher/dp/B07WX7JWN6 - And the official posting of this on UA-cam: ua-cam.com/video/Fx4MKh0vNyY/v-deo.html
Once in a generation talent. Truly a new Mozart for our time.
Wow, such amazing ability and such obvious joy in what she does.
What a gift! And how wonderful that she shares it with the world.
Can't imagine what it would be like to have her Talent, and confidence, and combine that with a beautiful soul. She is just so natural, and down to earth, what you see, is what you get. Have no doubts what so ever, her name will be in the history books, now, and forever. Don't ever change, Alma, just a beautiful soul .
I love how confident she sounds when she she's going to create the improvisation.
The expression of the interviewer is priceless.
Su idioma original es la música. Ella piensa en música como nosotros pensamos en palabras.. Genio!!!
The thing I love about improv is no one ever in the whole of the human race is ever going to play it exactly the same way as you do again, down to every minute detail. It's just one moment in time never to be repeated exactly the same way again. It's as if it comes from nowhere and then disappears again as if it never were. If you are just sitting at the piano improvising and notes flow out before you remember them or before they are recorded, those exact combinations of notes will never appear ever again. Music is infinite. That's what I love about it.
I love how he just shakes his head in disbelief she's just that amazing
This is amazing
Angels. A window to God. We are all blessed to have her.
It's a beautiful thing when a person knows what there gift is, and walks therein. It's simply beautiful.
I so ADORE this girl, I have only recently found her and she stole my heart, what a lovely gift she is
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You: *interesting*
Me, an intellectual: *h m m , d i f f i c u l t*
The quality is so good didn't even noticed until I read the pinned comment
She's a genius, that kind of improvisation isn't simple she has a big talent!
Love these rare videos where you don't find ONE negative comment !! Alma even manages that !! Because she IS perfect !!
WOW, JUST WONDERFUL😊😊😊🎶🎶🎶!!!!
Very amazing, if there is something called ULTRA gifted and to a depth most of us, me, cant comprehend. Mozart, Beethove, Bernstein, she exceeds all of them. WOW
stephen bardfield The result of several years intensive professional musical training ,without distraction such as computers or school. Hothouse flower. I just hope she develops and matures in other parts of her life.
no
Yes, no!
She does not exceeds them in any way.She is able to stuck around some classical patterns.
I am NOT a genius and do not declare such nonsense about me.
But when I was about her age I improvised-and I was used to do this since I was 5 years old-about music by Martinu and any other composer I heard on radio on the piano and church organ.
I did this alone for me but nether for any "astounding" listeners.
It is not such astounding sometimes(and more often one could think) this occurs to young musicians.
I do not like her because it is obvious she thinks about herself very great and seeks about situations to show her talent.
She seems- in my opinion- to be educated and rised to be full of herself and to demonstrate it.
No, this is not my cup of tea.
She should be educated quietly and very good to not only play her own music, which is childish and not genial.
I have no Interest to hear some music by her sounding like Mozart going childish again in a most uninteresting manner.
If you want to listen to really prodigys than listen to Korngolds works he wrote at age 11- 15 or Joey Alexander.
Those are really wonders.
I whish Alma the best and also whish her, to make an end with this "demonstrations" of her talent.
This is a way to nowhere I am very sure.
If she does not grow up with results showing this- playing other composers works like Mozart or Beethoven-
she will fail.
Playing her childish Violin concerto if 16 years old in the future this would be the end.
And in this moment all people, who love her so much now as a little girl, will quit their love.
It is as simple as this.
The musical businness is a tough one and does not care about former prodigies if they fail.
So please be carefull about young Alma!
Schlechtriem,sorry you talk a lot of shit!!! Go yet public and play before a great audience,500 people or more with a lot of cameras!!!yes yes you are much more clever than Sir Rattle and Zubin Mehta and Barenboim ,Sophie Mutter .I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE WORLD UGLY.! And girls with ugly torned jeans.In the name of Alma!
Her teacher looks stunned!!! This child is amazing!!!! We are blessed to have her.🐁💞
Never fails to bring tears to my eyes. So moved by the joy that runs through her into her fingertips and the sound of beauty that flows through her
at 1:22 just love the way he shakes his head in astonishment...
God gives wonderful gifts....such as music and this child....
no wonder the angels sang as God created the universe.
No, she is just amazingly talented. Nothing to do with God, because if he loved us all equally, why would he make some people with advantages and not others? That's not loving equally...
@@versacegang4140 Her gifts have everything to do with God, seeing that He is the Creator. Furthermore, it is only people who equate advantages with love, just as you are doing right now- but God doesn't do that. That's not how God shows us how He loves us. That's not how He operates. God gives and takes away, but it doesn't mean He loves us any more or any less. He loves each individual the same regardless of their talents or advantages b/c it is not our advantages, our gifts, or what we aquire that give us our value in God's eyes- it's the simple fact that He created us in love, and with love bc He IS love. Advantages will never equal love to God b/c He doesn't think in the same limited, small minded ways that humans do. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, His ways are higher than our ways. He loves us immensely no matter what gifts we do, or do not have. God is amazing.
@@GameChanger597 You have a simplistic view of the world. This kind of ability comes from a lottery mixture of genetic predisposition, resources (that she was born into a family who had the will and financial means to support her talents) and daily hard work. God is almost certainly a fiction, but what really grates me about your comment is how it dismisses the dedication and sacrifice that artists put into their craft. These things don't just happen effortlessly. Talent can only take you so far. This is the product of countless hours of studying, practising, making mistakes and learning from them. It's blood, sweat and tears, not fairy dust.
@@versacegang4140 Reincarnation is the reason some have more advantages than others in certain aspects. We're playing out our karmic hand and there's nothing random in the cards which we've been dealt. We're either here to give back, pay it forward, teach, learn, grow, strive, etc... In some instances, people must suffer in order to endure the suffering they've meted out to others.
VERSACE GANG Would you really want everyone to just be the same exact thing? When someone special comes along, they are to be appreciated. Such people are called to different lives than the rest.
Loving doesn’t mean that everyone just gets whatever they want. That’s destructive, not loving.
Incredible! Beautifully done!
Absolutely, Crazy! Where does anybody, yes anybody, get so much talent ? And be so humble to boot! Truly Amazing. Bravo Alma, bravo !!!!
This young lady is more than extremely talented! She is exceptional!
Pure Gift from Above…. How else can this be explained? I’ve never seen or heard anyone as talented at Alma….. it’s so easy for her…. So it’s Divine Intervention and unexplainable! And what a lovely girl she is….. not at all pompous….
this is so incredibly beautiful. There are humans, and there are humans.
Just brought tears to my eyes! Stunning performance(s)! Thank you.
I can't wait for her to compose her first symphony! What a great talent.
Philip Feeley She’s workin on it.
So to compose, suddenly, with extreme rapidity ... with Bach-style passages, to switch to the style of Chopin, Mozart and Beethovem ... absolutely fantastic.
Compor assim, de improviso, com extrema rapidez... com passagens ao estilo de Bach, mudar para o estilo de Chopin, Mozart e Beethovem... absolutamente fantástico.
Simplemente..., BRILLANTE!!!
Una verdadera GENIO, preciosa, creativa y versátil.
Un ÁNGEL bajado del cielo, para nuestro deleite y regocijo.
Un regalo de Dios!!!
😍💓😘
She is really out of this world... P.S I love her singing voice!
There is some sort of pure joy that needs to be experienced for someone to be able to smile during an improvisation. I would be concentrating too much. I can barely smile through piano pieces I’m familiar with...
She has perfect pitch also. I would love to see an interview with her parents.
It was a pretty impressive improvisation, it can actually be a sketch for a more complete piece. Her improv on 60 minutes was even more impressive, and would make a very nice Sonata when polished up.
Her "polished up" piece ended up being called the "60-minute Polka" - probably her most energetic work to date. Parts approach a sort of Joplin-Chopin combo genre that I've never heard before. Just fantastic stuff from her, eh?
How absolutely amazing! I am sure Mr Yentob was totally astonished and delighted to hear this!
What the what? Who's spirit came back from the dead and chose this young lady as a host to engage such brilliance. Wow.. this is so hard to do..pick 4 notes and less than a minute you design a piece with more than 4 different movement to it? What the what? Brilliant Talent out of the world... Someones spirit came and took over and graced this young lady.... wow... Just wow.
You find another improvisation by Alma on CBS news "Overtime" - done in the last day or two (Nov 3,4).! (B, A, E flat, G.)
Keith Tinkler Would you be able to supply the link for us?
just search "cbs overtime' and deutscher and prodigy too if need be, its in their feed - there is no separate url. They also did about 15 to 20 minutes on her the program 60 Minutes on Sunday night - I don't know if that is available online..
Keith Tinkler Thank you! I found it. Beautiful pieces and amazing performance by such a gifted young lady!
Yes, I saw that too. And it IS a gifted girl. But improvising is doing things which you have often done before. A container of things you can do at random. Viewed this way in the improvisation you mentioned she did decide to use a Bb instead of the B natural which was drawn. And from there on the texture and rhythms used are quite similar. So, there sort of a template, which is why she thinks 40 seconds first, to work it all out. Very intelligent and well played though...
I imagine if she were in privacy should would be trying other things. But this is for TV show, so you gotta pull it off to form, I think she does this type of thing at her concerts as well where she asks for notes, and on one occasion that I saw she asked for a theme to improvise on. But each time she manages to put together a very nice and pleasant to listen to and flowing piece, shows that these sorts of skills are child's play to her lol. And she did say with Arik that one of her development exercises is to be given a Base line and then to improvise to it which is an even harder exercise.
Would love to see her improvise a 3-part fugue on the Royal Theme, the same one J.S. Bach was given by Frederick the Great when he visited his palace in Potsdam in 1747. This girl's talent is VERY impressive, but much of her extemporaneous creation revolves around sequences, Alberti bass lines and the circle of fifths. Bach's improvisational genius was on a whole other level. Check out the Ricercar a 3 in the Musical Offering to see what I mean. They say it's the actual version, note-for-note that he played on the fly before the king in the antechamber. Nevertheless this girl is certainly AWESOME! Love her.
It might be a bit too much to compare 12 year old Alma with adult Bach, the greatest improvisor of all time.
Anyways, in a recent radio program Alma improvised a three-voice fugue, unfortunately we only heard the ending.
diese kleine tolle Maus, dieses talentiertes Mädchen, ist ein Brocken, der musikalisch auf uns noch zukommen wird. Ich habe noch nie bei meinen Schülern so ein Gespür bemerkt!
Alma is spectacular! What a lovely being of light!
Really quite remarkable!
Amazing........
Thank the Gods that this Wunderkind had the parents and environment to develop her breathtaking talent!
Simply , yet astonishingly amazing. True, raw, talent!
she like transfers from the classical era to the Chopin and then back to classical
una maestra ascendida entre nosotros! bella!
What a wonderful gift!!!!! The world has become a better place.
Wahnsinn, ich bin hellauf begeistert, eine so talentierte und überaus begabte junge Dame… ich bin ihr größter Fan ♥️♥️♥️♥️