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

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

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.

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

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

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man