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Alma Deutscher

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Alma Deutscher · Arts & Literature

What

British composer and prodigy who wrote the opera Cinderella as a child

When

2005, Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Where

United Kingdom

Biography

Alma Deutscher is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — British composer and prodigy who wrote the opera Cinderella as a child

How & why

Deutscher is a British composer, pianist and violinist and a musical prodigy who composed her first opera, the full-length Cinderella, as a child; it premiered in Vienna under Zubin Mehta's patronage. She works in a lyrical, tonal idiom and has performed and premiered her concertos internationally. The daughter of the Israeli-born linguist Guy Deutscher, she is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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British composer and prodigy who wrote the opera Cinderella as a child

2005

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music