I Think A Composer Is Always Interested

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

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 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.

But If You Go From Moscow To Budapest You Think You Are In Paris.

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.