8+ Gyorgy Legeti Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Gyorgy Legeti quotes and sayings.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. — Gyorgy Legeti

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. — Gyorgy Legeti

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. — Gyorgy Legeti

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

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. — Gyorgy Legeti

I think a composer is always interested in his last work. — Gyorgy Legeti

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. — Gyorgy Legeti

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. — Gyorgy Legeti