In January 1944 I Was Called Up

In My Piano Concerto I Developed This Polyphony To Much Higher Complexity

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.

However, I Began Composing As Soon As I Started Taking Piano Lessons.

I Lived Under The Nazis And Under The Communists.

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.