About Alfred Brendel: Alfred Brendel is an Austrian pianist, poet and author. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time.
You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.