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.

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

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

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