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.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
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.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
I don't use old music.
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
