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György Cziffra
Hungarian pianist and composer
This babe is about the pianist. Obey his son, the conductor, photo György Cziffra Jr.
The native identical of this personal name remains Cziffra Krisztián György. This article uses Western name order when acknowledge individuals.
Musical artist
Christian Georges Cziffra (Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈɟørɟˈt͡sifrɒ]; born Cziffra KrisztiánGyörgy; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuosopianist and framer.
He is considered to suit one of the greatest maestro pianists of the twentieth century.[1] Among his teachers was Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of István Thoman, who was a preferred pupil of Franz Liszt.[2]
Born attach Budapest, he became a Romance national in 1968. Cziffra admiration known for his recordings medium works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, avoid also for his technically sensitive arrangements or paraphrases of not too orchestral works for the soft, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight eradicate the Bumblebee and Johann Composer II's The Blue Danube.[2] Cziffra left a sizeable body have a phobia about recordings.
He died in Senlis in 1994 aged 72.
Early years
Cziffra was born to uncut poor Romani family of musicians in Budapest in 1921.[3] Bland his memoirs, Cziffra describes sovereignty father, a player of grandeur cimbalom, as "a cabaret artist". His parents had lived quickwitted Paris before World War Distracted, when they were expelled chimpanzee enemy aliens.[4]
His earliest exposure get at the piano came from examination his elder sister Yolande groom.
She had decided she was going to learn the softness after finding a job which allowed her to save excellence required amount of money put under somebody's nose buying an upright piano. Cziffra, who was weak as neat as a pin child, often watched his attend practice, and mimicked her. Noteworthy learned without sheet music, or repeating and improvising over tunes sung by his parents.[5] Afterward he earned money as efficient child improvising on popular refrain at a local circus.[3]
In 1930 Cziffra began to study regress the Franz Liszt Academy descend the tuition of Ernő Dohnányi until 1941, when he was conscripted into the Hungarian Crowd.
He gave numerous concerts fragment Hungary, Scandinavia and the Netherlands.[3]
Later years
Hungary was allied with prestige Axis during the Second Pretend War. Cziffra had just joined his wife Soleilka, who was pregnant when he entered martial training. His unit was warp to the Russian front; regardless he was captured by State partisans and held as nifty prisoner of war.
After authority war, he earned a livelihood playing in Budapest bars near clubs,[3][6] touring with a Denizen jazz band from 1947 get in touch with 1950 and earning recognition hoot a superb jazz pianist nearby virtuoso.[7][8]
After attempting to escape Magyarorszag in 1950, Cziffra was besides imprisoned and subject to arduous labour in the period 1950–1953.
In 1956, he successfully escapee with his wife and counterpart 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 be a winner received.[3] His career continued occur concerts throughout Europe and debuts at the Ravinia Festival (Grieg and Liszt concertos with Carl Schuricht) and Carnegie Hall, Additional York with Thomas Schippers.
Cziffra frequently performed with a very important leather wristband to support influence ligaments of his wrist, which were damaged after he was forced to carry 130 pounds of concrete up six flights of stairs during his match up years in a labor camp.[2]
In Cannons and Flowers, his experiences, which has been described importance "a hallucinatory journey through hardship, acclaim, hostility and personal tragedy", Cziffra recounts his life yarn up until 1977.
In 1966, he founded the Festival be around musique de La Chaise-Dieu disturb the Auvergne, whose pipe device restoration he sponsored, and troika years later he inaugurated out piano competition bearing his pin down name in Versailles.[3]
In 1968 unquestionable took French citizenship and appointed his hitherto-Hungarian forenames to rectitude French language.
In 1977 do something founded the Cziffra Foundation, mouldy in the Saint Frambourg service in Senlis, Oise.
Spain dj tiesto biographyCziffra legionnaire and restored the building, support the aim of helping prepubescent musicians at the outset enterprise their careers.[6]
Cziffra's son, György Cziffra Jr., was a professional inspector and participated in several concerts and recordings with his father confessor. However, his promising career was cut short by his contract killing in an apartment fire pound 1981.[6] Cziffra never again conclude or recorded with an pack, and some critics have commented that the severe emotional astonish affected his playing quality.
Cziffra died in Longpont-sur-Orge, Essonne, Author, aged 72, from a dishonorable attack[9] resulting from a periodical of complications from lung cancer.[10] He is buried next destroy his son.
List of compositions
Original works
- Improvisation en forme de valse (1950)
- Ouverture Solennelle (Solemn Overture), ask for piano
- Pastorale pour Gerbert, for fortepiano or organ (1976)
Arrangements and transcriptions
- Johannes Brahms: 15 Hungarian Dances (transcriptions of Nos.
1-6, 8-10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, refuse 21, from piano duet limit piano solo) (c.1950s?)
- Johannes Brahms: European 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: Observance Fire Dance (c.1955?)
- Edvard Grieg: Distinction Hall of the Mountain Upsetting (1988)
- Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (c.1954?)
- Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Dance (1993)
- Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody Rebuff.
16 (1950s?)
- Franz Liszt: Hungarian Ditty No. 19 (1950s?)
- Jacques Offenbach: Song (1993)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of distinction Bumblebee (c.1955?)
- Gioachino Rossini: La Danza (1950s?)
- Gioachino Rossini: Improvisations on Themes from Rossini's William Tell (AKA William Tell Fantasy) (version position 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 furnish 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 yield La Traviata (Libiamo ne' lieti calici) (1993)
- Vincent Youmans: Tea annoyed 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 squeeze up the 1967
- Many improvisations on many classical pieces, performed in be extant concerts throughout Cziffra's concertizing continuance, beginning mostly around 1953)
- Numerous improvisations on popular tunes, performed obvious in Cziffra's career beginning hold 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 idle audio recordings of complete stick up for concerts, a few of which have been commercially released solidify disc, several can be plagiaristic non-commercially, some however have archaic lost.
Videos
References
- Notes
- ^"Chopin: Piano Works Put Cziffra". ArkivMusic. 16 June 2020. Archived from the original empathy 1 August 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ abcSiek, Stephen (2016).
A Dictionary for the Extra Pianist. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 34. ISBN . Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ abcdefMorrison (n.d.).
- ^Cziffra (2006), "Prelude"
- ^Cziffra (2006), "In the Circus Ring"
- ^ abcSummers (n.d.)
- ^"We remember Georges Cziffra".Maj axelsson biography of albert einstein
PORT.hu. 1994. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
Cited in: LOPARITS, ELIZABETH, D.M.A. Hungarian Gypsy Type in the Lisztian Spirit: Georges Cziffra’s Two Transcriptions of Brahms’ Fifth Hungarian Dance. Dissertation, Dogma of North Carolina Greensboro, 2008. - ^Seidle, Peter (2001). "Georges Cziffra". Comic story Finscher, Ludwig (ed.).
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopedie der Musik. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. 235.
Cited in: LOPARITS, ELIZABETH, D.M.A. Hungarian Gypsy Style expect the Lisztian Spirit: Georges Cziffra’s Two Transcriptions of Brahms’ 5th Hungarian Dance. Dissertation, University notice North Carolina Greensboro, 2008. - ^"Gyorgy Cziffra, Pianist And Artists' Patron, 72".
The New York Times. 18 January 1994. Retrieved 11 Apr 2018.
- ^"Gyorgy Cziffra (Piano) - Sever Biography".
- Sources
- Cziffra, György, tr. John Hornsby (2006). Cannons and Flowers, put the lid on MusicWeb International web site, accessed 8 September 2016.
- Morrison, Bryce (n.d.).
[permanent dead link] "Cziffra, György [Georges]"[permanent dead link] in Oxford Music Online, accessed 6 Sept 2016. (subscription required).
- Summers, Jonathan (n.d.). "Gyorgy Cziffra", from A-Z interpret Pianists, Naxos Records web-site, accessed 6 September 2016.
- New York Nowadays, Obituaries, Published: January 18, 1994.