I don't use old music.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.