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.

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

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.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland