Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

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

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

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

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.