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

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

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

I don't use old music.

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

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.