I Only Want To Give A Metaphysic

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.

But If You Go From Moscow To Budapest You Think You Are In Paris.

There Was A Very Famous Musician In Our Family. He Was A Great Violinist, An Internationally Known Teacher. He Was Leopold Auer.

However, I Began Composing As Soon As I Started Taking Piano Lessons.

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.