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At seven, she composed her first short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. These first written notations were unclear, but by age six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata, a recording of which was released in 2013. Īt four she was improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her own compositions. Within a year she was playing Handel sonatas. And after it finished I asked my parents "How could music be so beautiful?" She received a little violin as a present on her third birthday, and while her parents thought it would just be another toy, she was "so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end", so her parents decided to find her a teacher. In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times, Deutscher said: "I remember when I was three and I was listening to a lullaby by Richard Strauss, I loved it! I especially loved the harmony I always call it the Strauss harmony now. She could sing in perfect pitch before she could speak, and she could read music before she could read words. Her strong affinity to music was apparent from an early age. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara. She is the daughter of literary scholar, Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and linguist, Guy Deutscher. 6 Notable Performances, Recordings and PublicationsĪlma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England.2 Compositional Method, Style and Aesthetics.