started to compose my piano pieces called Games in 1973. Until 1979, the publication of the first four volumes, these works existed only as manuscripts, on sheets of music paper. However, in 1974, I started two large music notebooks with grey covers in which I collected my favourite pieces for the two people who played a special role in my life. One of the notebooks was Zoltán Kocsis's, who, from then on, always played my piano pieces from it, and he gave it back to me from time to time over the...