Facts about Gyorgy Legeti

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Gyorgy Legeti is a famous author.

Our collection contains 8 quotes who is written / told by Gyorgy.

8 Famous quotes by Gyorgy Legeti

"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 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

"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

"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

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

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