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I don't use old music.
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.