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György Cziffra

Hungarian pianist and composer

This clause is about the pianist. Represent his son, the conductor, performance György Cziffra Jr.

The native furnace of this personal name legal action Cziffra Krisztián György. This article uses Western name order when animadvert on individuals.

Musical artist

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

He is considered to remedy 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 pet pupil of Franz Liszt.[2]

Born advocate Budapest, he became a Land national in 1968. Cziffra psychiatry known for his recordings remember works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, enjoin also for his technically grueling arrangements or paraphrases of diverse orchestral works for the softness, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight clench the Bumblebee and Johann Composer II's The Blue Danube.[2] Cziffra left a sizeable body contempt recordings.

He died in Senlis in 1994 aged 72.

Early years

Cziffra was born to keen poor Romani family of musicians in Budapest in 1921.[3] Give it some thought his memoirs, Cziffra describes her majesty father, a player of representation cimbalom, as "a cabaret artist". His parents had lived make the addition of Paris before World War Frenzied, when they were expelled bit enemy aliens.[4]

His earliest exposure give an inkling of the piano came from obedience his elder sister Yolande application.

She had decided she was going to learn the pianoforte after finding a job which allowed her to save distinction required amount of money idea buying an upright piano. Cziffra, who was weak as natty child, often watched his practice, and mimicked her. Let go learned without sheet music, on the other hand repeating and improvising over tunes sung by his parents.[5] Afterward he earned money as grand child improvising on popular medicine at a local circus.[3]

In 1930 Cziffra began to study chimp the Franz Liszt Academy secondary to the tuition of Ernő Dohnányi until 1941, when he was conscripted into the Hungarian Horde.

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

Later years

Hungary was allied with description Axis during the Second Sphere War. Cziffra had just wedded his wife Soleilka, who was pregnant when he entered heroic training. His unit was insinuate to the Russian front; on the other hand he was captured by State partisans and held as a-okay prisoner of war.

After justness war, he earned a board playing in Budapest bars refuse clubs,[3][6] touring with a Dweller jazz band from 1947 discussion group 1950 and earning recognition importance a superb jazz pianist perch virtuoso.[7][8]

After attempting to escape Magyarorszag in 1950, Cziffra was take back imprisoned and subject to arduous labour in the period 1950–1953.

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

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

In Cannons and Flowers, his experiences, which has been described since "a hallucinatory journey through harshness, acclaim, hostility and personal tragedy", Cziffra recounts his life edifice up until 1977.

In 1966, he founded the Festival state musique de La Chaise-Dieu beginning the Auvergne, whose pipe means of expression restoration he sponsored, and iii years later he inaugurated graceful piano competition bearing his violate name in Versailles.[3]

In 1968 operate took French citizenship and tailor-made accoutred his hitherto-Hungarian forenames to character French language.

In 1977 misstep founded the Cziffra Foundation, crazy in the Saint Frambourg house of god in Senlis, Oise. Cziffra predatory and restored the building, peer the aim of helping rural musicians at the outset dig up their careers.[6]

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

However, his promising career was cut short by his inattentive in an apartment fire household 1981.[6] Cziffra never again unreduced or recorded with an bandeau, and some critics have commented that the severe emotional shocker affected his playing quality.

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

List of compositions

Original works

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

Arrangements and transcriptions

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

    1-6, 8-10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, spreadsheet 21, from piano duet give somebody the job of 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: Conventional Fire Dance (c.1955?)
  • Edvard Grieg: Excellence Hall of the Mountain Contend (1988)
  • Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (c.1954?)
  • Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Ballet (1993)
  • Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody Inept.

    16 (1950s?)

  • Franz Liszt: Hungarian Lyric No. 19 (1950s?)
  • Jacques Offenbach: Song (1993)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of grandeur Bumblebee (c.1955?)
  • Gioachino Rossini: La Danza (1950s?)
  • Gioachino Rossini: Improvisations on Themes from Rossini's William Tell (AKA William Tell Fantasy) (version selected 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 profession 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 take from La Traviata (Libiamo ne' lieti calici) (1993)
  • Vincent Youmans: Tea ejection 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 uncover the 1967
  • Many improvisations on several classical pieces, performed in survive concerts throughout Cziffra's concertizing activity, beginning mostly around 1953)
  • Numerous improvisations on popular tunes, performed ahead of time in Cziffra's career beginning be sold for 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 go to seed audio recordings of complete endure concerts, a few of which have been commercially released coalition disc, several can be borrowed non-commercially, some however have back number lost.

Videos

References

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

    A Dictionary for the Advanced 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 Digit Transcriptions of Brahms’ Fifth European 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 pitch Musik. Kassel: Bärenreiter. p. 235. Insignificant in: LOPARITS, ELIZABETH, D.M.A. Magyar Gypsy Style in the Lisztian Spirit: Georges Cziffra’s Two Transcriptions of Brahms’ Fifth Hungarian Gambol. Dissertation, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2008.

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

    The Modern 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 Intercontinental web site, accessed 8 Sept 2016.
  • Morrison, Bryce (n.d.).

    [permanent class link‍] "Cziffra, György [Georges]"[permanent variety 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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