However, I Began Composing As Soon As

Now There Is No Taboo; Everything Is Allowed. But One Cannot Simply Go Back To Tonality, It’s Not The Way. We Must Find A Way Of Neither Going Back Nor Continuing The Avant-garde. I Am In A Prison: One Wall Is The Avant-garde, The Other Wall Is The Past, And I Want To Escape.

Then, After The War It Was Impossible To Travel, After So Many Years Of Hitler And Stalin.

There Is A Wonderful Hungarian Literature, Especially In Lyric Poetry.

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.