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.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
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 don’t read such boring things. Life is too short.
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
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 listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.