I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

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

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

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.