I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

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.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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

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

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.