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

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

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

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

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

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

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.