György Cziffra
Christian Georges Cziffra (; born Cziffra Krisztián György; 5 November 192115 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of István Thoman, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.Born in Budapest, he became a French national in 1968. Cziffra is known for his recordings of works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, and also for his technically demanding arrangements or paraphrases of several orchestral works for the piano, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Flight of the Bumblebee'' and Johann Strauss II's ''The Blue Danube''. Cziffra left a sizeable body of recordings.
He died in Senlis in 1994 aged 72. Provided by Wikipedia
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Cannons & flowers : the memoirs of Georges Cziffra /
Published 1996Other Authors: “…Cziffra, Georges, 1921-1994…”
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Clarisse Hirzel : transcriptions pour piano /
Published 2002Other Authors: CONNECT
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Piano concerto no. 1 /
Published 2007Other Authors: “…Cziffra, Georges, 1921-1994…”
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György Cziffra, the early Columbia records.
Published 2006Other Authors: “…Cziffra, Georges, 1921-1994…”
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Piano & violin concertos /
Published 2009Other Authors: “…Cziffra, Georges, 1921-1994…”
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Piano concertos nos. 1 & 2 Totentanz ; Hungarian fantasy /
Published 2000Other Authors: “…Cziffra, Georges, 1921-1994…”
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Waltzes ; Impromptus /
Published 2005Other Authors: “…Cziffra, Georges, 1921-1994…”
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