Alicia listened with all her attention to the piano class that her aunt was giving. As soon as he had finished, she took the opportunity to climb up and type that seductive music. She was three years old and her name was Alicia de Larrocha. And it is that she had been approaching the enormous black furniture that presided over the room for some time, having discovered that if she hit the white keys she would obtain a varied disturbing sound.
The eminent pianist denied that she was a child prodigy; she at most she recognized that she undoubtedly already evidenced a natural predisposition. And she added that such initial impulses were spontaneously favored by the atmosphere that the family already breathed. It is important to know that her mother and her aunt were disciples of the composer Enric Granados; her father, an amateur violinist, and her mother's cousin had founded a piano academy.
She was not more than four years old when the teacher Frank Marshall already accepted her as a student in his very prestigious academy.
And it didn't take long for her to confirm her aptitudes to become a great soloist. Her attitude was fundamental: her passion led her to type tirelessly and in her own way, which somewhat bordered on her technique. Her aunt also gave her psychologically well-oriented classes by avoiding not forcing her as soon as she was tired; she just lowered the lid. The reaction was immediate: the girl then insisted on continuing with an ever greater impetus.
At the age of five he already amazed the public that filled the Palace of Belles Arts. At the age of seven she made her debut as a soloist at the Palau de la Música Catalana. At the age of ten, she performed with the Municipal Band. She was also aiming as a director and even a composer. At eleven years old, she and she gave a concert in the capital of Spain with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra.
The uncivil war was in every way a difficult rupture to bear.
The reappearance was staged at the Palau de la Música Catalana. It was 1944.
He was about to enter the frantic and eager stage of touring the main stages of the world. She agreed to answer the Proust Questionnaire, in which she acknowledged that she had wanted to be a few centimeters taller. She confessed to me that, on the other hand, she had known how to compensate through the speed of execution for some little hands that did not give her the eighth.
