I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

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.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.