New York Is The Dream World, The

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.

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

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 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.