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I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country... →
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to... →
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire... →
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid... →
After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the... →
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as... →
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me... →
The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the... →