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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

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Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

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New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

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Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

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However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Composer

Born: May 28th, 1923

Died: June 12th, 2006

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