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

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

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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.

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock