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György Cziffra
12+ albums
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Georges (Gyorgy) Cziffra was born in Budapest on 5th November 1921. His parents had been expelled from Paris back to Hungary at the beginning of the 1914 1918 war and in his memoirs 'Cannons and Flowers' Cziffra tells of his birth into abject poverty and of the squalid life in the refuge camp nicknamed 'Angel Court' by its bedraggled, Dickensian inhabitants. Cziffra's first awareness of a piano was on hearing his sister practising and later at the age of five his father gave him his first lessons. It wasn't too long before he was able to play by ear and arrange well known themes and songs from operas and musicals. Cziffra would spend many hours improvising and then used this talent to advantage when he was invited by clowns from a local circus to improvise on favourite tunes given to him by the audience. This was his his first paid work as a pianist but due to ill health and a weak constitution at this time it was short lived. At the age of nine, Cziffra had lessons from a lady named Jolan Tausky and by 1931 he was able to audition for Dohnanyi at the Liszt Academy in Budapest who recognised the child prodigies gifts. Imre Keeri-Szanto, like Bartok and Dohnanyi a student of Istvan Thoman (a Liszt protege)was Cziffra's teacher at the Academy and despite his young age Cziffra was allowed to attend the masterclasses of both Thoman and Dohnanyi. Cziffra's progress was swift and on a visit to the Academy Rachmaninoff predicted a great future for him; by 1933 he was already
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Transcription on Hungarian Dance No. 5
1,1762La Campanella (Liszt)
6803Grand Galop Chromatique (Liszt)
5184Mephisto-Valse (Liszt)
4755Khachaturian - Gayane: Sabre Dance
2496Carnaval Op.9 (Scènes Mignonnes Sur Quatre Notes)-Chopin
2407Hungarian Dance No.5
2178Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: Flight of the Bumble Bee
2139Transcendental Studies, S139: No.1 in C 'Preludio'
15010Nocturne No. 3 In A Flat Major (Liszt)
128albums
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György Cziffra; the Early Columbia Records
Récital à Saint-Frambourg: Couperin, Rameau, Marais & Daquin
The Early Columbia Records
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Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Paraphrases & Trascriptions - Grieg: Piano Concerto in a Minor
Récital: Couperin, Scarlatti, Krebs, Mozart, Hummel, Beethoven...
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Cziffra, Gyorgy: Piano Works by Liszt, Schumann, Balakirev, Field, Hummel and Cziffra
György Cziffra - Paraphrases and Transcriptions
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Les rendez-vous de Senlis. Brahms: Danses hongroises - Chopin: Nocturnes & Études - Schubert: Impromptus
Georges Cziffra: Bach / Busoni , Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt
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Transcriptions, paraphrases et improvisations
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Robert Schuman : Carnaval, Op. 9 - Fantasiestuücke, Op. 12 - Carnaval de Vienne, Op. 26
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