Cziffra Plays Liszt
Georges Cziffra (1921 - 1994) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist. His father was a cimbalom player in restaurants and cabarets that Paris area. He was a child prodigy and first learned to play the piano by his sister read. Songs by ear after he was proclaimed to be his father or his siren songs to learn.
When he was five, he was a traveling circus and the audience improvise tunes played by the proposed rent has attracted attention. He just did not for a few weeks, but this association with the circus, some critics question the upbringing of his instrument. It was good Cziffra - Franz Liszt Academy in round instrument education, not to the age of admission was the youngest student ever admitted to the history. He was a master class that is usually reserved for older students allowed to take part.
In 1942 he was called up to fight in World War II. Russian in front of the unit under the command of the Nazis and the Russian partisans and occupied by a prisoner held for two years. He eventually escaped and returned to the military side of the Nazis, and a tank commander. He went to the restaurant through the denazification of the piano began to play.
Cziffra - Soviet controlled Hungary was trying to escape from the torture of a prisoner forced labor and 1950-1953 undergoing. He finally left the country for a concert in Vienna, 1956, the eve of the Hungarian uprising, and did not return to Hungary. He was a heavy hand on his right hand to his right under that torture during his imprisonment had been injured ligaments help support wore leather wristband.
Cziffra Liszt and the music was top of the 20th century who was known for his interpretation of virtuoso pianists. He is, but like Liszt was not only the Hungarian Gypsy extraction also. There was a problem with his account of the technical board. The most difficult music with ease, he throws off. Liszt's Hungarian rhapsody # 6 of his points in the process, if the following video. Hungarian Rhapsodies, that technical difficulties in the whole world, the number 6 in the finale, which is increasingly difficult to work with a long piece stands out for its final section, re-octaves. Cziffra octaves easily shoot off a note, as if he had been playing, and actually increase the tempo without losing clarity:
Next Cziffra plays Etude #3 'la Campanella' of Liszt's Paganini Etudes. This etude was inspired by the third movement theme of Paganini's Violin Concerto #2
When he was five, he was a traveling circus and the audience improvise tunes played by the proposed rent has attracted attention. He just did not for a few weeks, but this association with the circus, some critics question the upbringing of his instrument. It was good Cziffra - Franz Liszt Academy in round instrument education, not to the age of admission was the youngest student ever admitted to the history. He was a master class that is usually reserved for older students allowed to take part.
In 1942 he was called up to fight in World War II. Russian in front of the unit under the command of the Nazis and the Russian partisans and occupied by a prisoner held for two years. He eventually escaped and returned to the military side of the Nazis, and a tank commander. He went to the restaurant through the denazification of the piano began to play.
Cziffra - Soviet controlled Hungary was trying to escape from the torture of a prisoner forced labor and 1950-1953 undergoing. He finally left the country for a concert in Vienna, 1956, the eve of the Hungarian uprising, and did not return to Hungary. He was a heavy hand on his right hand to his right under that torture during his imprisonment had been injured ligaments help support wore leather wristband.
Cziffra Liszt and the music was top of the 20th century who was known for his interpretation of virtuoso pianists. He is, but like Liszt was not only the Hungarian Gypsy extraction also. There was a problem with his account of the technical board. The most difficult music with ease, he throws off. Liszt's Hungarian rhapsody # 6 of his points in the process, if the following video. Hungarian Rhapsodies, that technical difficulties in the whole world, the number 6 in the finale, which is increasingly difficult to work with a long piece stands out for its final section, re-octaves. Cziffra octaves easily shoot off a note, as if he had been playing, and actually increase the tempo without losing clarity:
Next Cziffra plays Etude #3 'la Campanella' of Liszt's Paganini Etudes. This etude was inspired by the third movement theme of Paganini's Violin Concerto #2