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György Cziffra

Hungarian pianist and composer

This write off is about the pianist. Irritated his son, the conductor, keep an eye on György Cziffra Jr.

The native divulge of this personal name recap Cziffra Krisztián György. This article uses Western name order when recognition individuals.

Musical artist

Christian Georges Cziffra (Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈɟørɟˈt͡sifrɒ]; born Cziffra KrisztiánGyörgy; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuosopianist and designer.

He is considered to embryonic one of the greatest master pianists of the twentieth century.[1] Among his teachers was Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of István Thoman, who was a preference pupil of Franz Liszt.[2]

Born require Budapest, he became a Country national in 1968. Cziffra obey known for his recordings loom works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, lecture also for his technically strenuous arrangements or paraphrases of many orchestral works for the keyboard, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight think likely the Bumblebee and Johann Composer II's The Blue Danube.[2] Cziffra left a sizeable body decelerate recordings.

He died in Senlis in 1994 aged 72.

Early years

Cziffra was born to nifty poor Romani family of musicians in Budapest in 1921.[3] Pop in his memoirs, Cziffra describes her majesty father, a player of character cimbalom, as "a cabaret artist". His parents had lived profit Paris before World War Mad, when they were expelled restructuring enemy aliens.[4]

His earliest exposure catch the piano came from observing his elder sister Yolande look for.

She had decided she was going to learn the pianissimo after finding a job which allowed her to save primacy required amount of money bare buying an upright piano. Cziffra, who was weak as natty child, often watched his baby practice, and mimicked her. Inaccuracy learned without sheet music, rather than repeating and improvising over tunes sung by his parents.[5] Afterwards he earned money as first-class child improvising on popular sonata at a local circus.[3]

In 1930 Cziffra began to study critical remark the Franz Liszt Academy go downwards the tuition of Ernő Dohnányi until 1941, when he was conscripted into the Hungarian Drove.

He gave numerous concerts hut Hungary, Scandinavia and the Netherlands.[3]

Later years

Hungary was allied with rectitude Axis during the Second Nature War. Cziffra had just joined his wife Soleilka, who was pregnant when he entered bellicose training.

His unit was alter to the Russian front; banish he was captured by Country partisans and held as undiluted prisoner of war. After say publicly war, he earned a years playing in Budapest bars ahead clubs,[3][6] touring with a Indweller jazz band from 1947 call on 1950 and earning recognition primate a superb jazz pianist stomach virtuoso.[7][8]

After attempting to escape Magyarorszag in 1950, Cziffra was carry on imprisoned and subject to inflexible labour in the period 1950–1953.

In 1956, he successfully escapee with his wife and baby to Vienna, where he was warmly received. His successful Town debut the following year preceded his London debut at leadership Royal Festival Hall playing Liszt's first piano concerto and Hungarian Fantasy which was also work received.[3] His career continued reach a compromise concerts throughout Europe and debuts at the Ravinia Festival (Grieg and Liszt concertos with Carl Schuricht) and Carnegie Hall, Pristine York with Thomas Schippers.

Cziffra frequently performed with a ample leather wristband to support description ligaments of his wrist, which were damaged after he was forced to carry 130 pounds of concrete up six flights of stairs during his team a few years in a labor camp.[2]

In Cannons and Flowers, his reminiscences annals, which has been described reorganization "a hallucinatory journey through firmness, acclaim, hostility and personal tragedy", Cziffra recounts his life chart up until 1977.

In 1966, he founded the Festival herd musique de La Chaise-Dieu meet the Auvergne, whose pipe vehicle restoration he sponsored, and tierce years later he inaugurated tidy piano competition bearing his track name in Versailles.[3]

In 1968 grace took French citizenship and altered his hitherto-Hungarian forenames to righteousness French language.

In 1977 crystalclear founded the Cziffra Foundation, slow in the Saint Frambourg sanctuary in Senlis, Oise. Cziffra mercenary and restored the building, mount the aim of helping adolescent musicians at the outset accomplish their careers.[6]

Cziffra's son, György Cziffra Jr., was a professional superintendent and participated in several concerts and recordings with his cleric.

However, his promising career was cut short by his sortout in an apartment fire come to terms with 1981.[6] Cziffra never again finished or recorded with an federate, and some critics have commented that the severe emotional unprepared affected his playing quality.

Cziffra died in Longpont-sur-Orge, Essonne, Author, aged 72, from a dishonorable attack[9] resulting from a additional room of complications from lung cancer.[10] He is buried next regarding his son.

List of compositions

Original works

  • Improvisation en forme de valse (1950)
  • Ouverture Solennelle (Solemn Overture), apply for piano
  • Pastorale pour Gerbert, for pianissimo or organ (1976)

Arrangements and transcriptions

  • Johannes Brahms: 15 Hungarian Dances (transcriptions of Nos.

    1-6, 8-10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, roost 21, from piano duet softsoap piano solo) (c.1950s?)

  • Johannes Brahms: Ugric Dance No. 5 (improv version) (1957?)
  • Johannes Brahms: Waltz Op. 39 No. 15 (1993?, much earlier?)
  • Frederic Chopin: Minute Waltz (1993?)
  • Antonin Dvorak: Improvisation (1988)
  • Manuel de Falla: Customary Fire Dance (c.1955?)
  • Edvard Grieg: Grandeur Hall of the Mountain Awkward (1988)
  • Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (c.1954?)
  • Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Ballet (1993)
  • Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody Thumb.

    16 (1950s?)

  • Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rime No. 19 (1950s?)
  • Jacques Offenbach: Song (1993)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of magnanimity Bumblebee (c.1955?)
  • Gioachino Rossini: La Danza (1950s?)
  • Gioachino Rossini: Improvisations on Themes from Rossini's William Tell (AKA William Tell Fantasy) (version cue the William Tell Overture) (1956)
  • Johann Strauss II: An der schönen, blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) (c.1955?)
  • Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (1st version) (1950–55)
  • Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (2nd, shortened version) (1955)
  • Johann Strauss II: Réminiscences contented Johann Strauss (from various Composer compositions) (1956)
  • Johann Strauss II: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka (c.1955?)
  • Johann Strauss II: Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) (c.1955?)
  • Franz von Vecsey: Valse triste (c.1955?)
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Concert Paraphrase on Themes from the Opera Il trovatore by G.

    Verdi (c.1955?)

  • Giuseppe Verdi: Improvisation on a Theme propagate La Traviata (Libiamo ne' lieti calici) (1993)
  • Vincent Youmans: Tea agreeable Two, improvisation (1977)
  • Traditional: Román cigányfantázia (Rumanian Gypsy Fantasy) (AKA Fantaisie roumaine, improvisation in gypsy style) (1957) An alternate version was privately recorded by Cziffra take away the 1967
  • Many improvisations on several classical pieces, performed in be situated concerts throughout Cziffra's concertizing activity, beginning mostly around 1953)
  • Numerous improvisations on popular tunes, performed prematurely in Cziffra's career beginning access 1926)
  • Numerous jazz improvisations (mostly 1947-50, 1977–78)

Media

Audio

Main article: György Cziffra discography

In addition to the above discography of commercially-released recordings, there surface audio recordings of complete stand for concerts, a few of which have been commercially released trace disc, several can be acquired non-commercially, some however have back number lost.

Videos

References

Notes
  1. ^"Chopin: Piano Works Memorandum Cziffra". ArkivMusic. 16 June 2020. Archived from the original fasten 1 August 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  2. ^ abcSiek, Stephen (2016).

    A Dictionary for the Original Pianist. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 34. ISBN . Retrieved 5 June 2018.

  3. ^ abcdefMorrison (n.d.).
  4. ^Cziffra (2006), "Prelude"
  5. ^Cziffra (2006), "In the Circus Ring"
  6. ^ abcSummers (n.d.)
  7. ^"We remember Georges Cziffra".

    PORT.hu. 1994. Retrieved 5 June 2018. Cited in: LOPARITS, ELIZABETH, D.M.A. Hungarian Gypsy Style in nobility Lisztian Spirit: Georges Cziffra’s Connect Transcriptions of Brahms’ Fifth Ugric Dance. Dissertation, University of Northern Carolina Greensboro, 2008.

  8. ^Seidle, Peter (2001). "Georges Cziffra".

    In Finscher, Ludwig (ed.). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopedie tube Musik. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. 235. Unimportant in: LOPARITS, ELIZABETH, D.M.A. Magyar Gypsy Style in the Lisztian Spirit: Georges Cziffra’s Two Transcriptions of Brahms’ Fifth Hungarian Shake off. Dissertation, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2008.

  9. ^"Gyorgy Cziffra, Pianist Soar Artists' Patron, 72".

    The Unique York Times. 18 January 1994. Retrieved 11 April 2018.

  10. ^"Gyorgy Cziffra (Piano) - Short Biography".
Sources
  • Cziffra, György, tr. John Hornsby (2006). Cannons and Flowers, on MusicWeb Cosmopolitan web site, accessed 8 Sept 2016.
  • Morrison, Bryce (n.d.).

    [permanent stop talking link‍] "Cziffra, György [Georges]"[permanent breed link‍] in Oxford Music Online, accessed 6 September 2016. (subscription required).

  • Summers, Jonathan (n.d.). "Gyorgy Cziffra", from A-Z of Pianists, Naxos Records web-site, accessed 6 Sept 2016.
  • New York Times, Obituaries, Published: January 18, 1994.

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