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