Alicia listened with complete attention to the piano lesson her aunt was giving. As soon as it was over, she took the opportunity to climb in and play that seductive music. She was 3 years old and her name was Alicia de Larrocha. And the fact is that for some time now he had been approaching the enormous black furniture that presided over the room, since he had discovered that if he pressed the white keys he obtained a varied disturbing sound.
The eminent pianist denied me that she was a child prodigy; with his head held high he recognized that he undoubtedly already showed a natural predisposition. And he added that such initial impulses were favored with spontaneity by the atmosphere that already breathed in the family. It is important to know that his mother and his aunt were students of the composer Enric Granados; his father, an amateur violinist, and his mother’s cousin had founded a piano academy.
She was no more than 4 years old when teacher Frank Marshall already accepted her as a student in his very prestigious academy.
And it didn’t take long to confirm her abilities to become a great concert performer. Her attitude turned out to be fundamental: passion led her to type non-stop and in her own way, which somewhat eluded technique. Her aunt also gave her well-oriented psychological lessons, which avoided forcing her when she was tired; he just lowered the lid. The reaction was immediate: the little girl then hesitated to continue with ever-greater impetus.
At the age of 5, he already surprised the audience that filled the Palace of Fine Arts. At the age of 7 he made his debut as a soloist at the Palau de la Música Catalana. At the age of 10 he performed with the Municipal Band. She also aimed to be a director and even a composer. At the age of 11 he already gave a concert in the capital of Spain with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra.
The uncivil war was in every sense a break that was difficult to bear.
The reappearance was staged at the Palau de la Música Catalana. It ran in 1944.
I was ready to enter the frenzied and longed-for stage of touring the main stages of the world. She agreed to answer the Proust questionnaire, in which I admitted that I had wished to be a few centimeters taller. He confessed to me that, on the other hand, he had been able to compensate through the speed of execution for some handles with which he did not reach the eighth.
