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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.

First Of All I Listen To Music. I Like Music.

I Know Already The Music I Will Write. But The Words? I Have Not Yet Decided.

I Continued To Study Math And Physics On My Own, But One And A Half Years Later I Realized That I Did Want To Be A Composer, And After That I Never Changed My Mind.

I Listen To All Kinds Of Music - New Music, Old Music, Music Of My Colleagues, Everything.