When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
Gyorgy LigetiI 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.
Gyorgy LigetiIn January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
Gyorgy Ligeti