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Cyprien Katsaris
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Felix Weingartner
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Karol Szreter
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Joseph Banowetz
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Murray Perahia
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Joseph Alfidi
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Krystian Zimerman
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Roberto Urbay
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György Cziffra
Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer

György Cziffra

Intro
Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer
Awards Received
Franz Liszt Prize
Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Music

György Cziffra (in Hungarian form Cziffra György [ˈt͡sifrɒ ˈɟørɟ]; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994), also known as Georges Cziffra and George Cziffra, was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.

He became a French citizen 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 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. In recent years, dozens of private recordings from various sources have surfaced online, on YouTube. The non-profit short-run record label Zenith Classical is in the process of making Cziffra's private recordings available on CD.