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'Then we came on to Detroit. He did not really want to go to Detroit, but they came to him three or four times. They wanted him to work with them, and knew that only he could do it. He took time to think it over and finally agreed. No, it was not a bad time, looking back.' A period of readjustment? 'Maybe. But the older I got, I needed to have a little more time at home. It's no good having a home when you're never there. And Toni cut down to four to five months a year, eventually.'

'Then we came here in 1983, and enjoyed this house tremendously. Toni did more painting, and he wrote his book about Peace -- his final creation, which is very serious, very contemplative. We had many activities, you know, in spite of being home!'

Forming my sound

'After I had completed my studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1949, I was planning to live there, and went to Innsbruck to my mother's place to pick up my things. Through rather strange circumstances, I heard that a Russian lady was in town, looking for a new pupil to whom she could pass on a legacy given to her by a teacher called Nikolajew. Through an accident, the nerves of her right hand were severed, and she was no longer able to play herself.

'So, she worked as Nikolajew's assistant. He was also studying medicine alongside teaching music, and had many pupils with problems like tendenitis or strained muscles. I had also developed similar symptoms, and my attention was immediately caught.

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