biography
pronunciation:
[sheefra]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921–94)
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| biography:
| Pianist, born in Hungary, who became a French citizen in 1968. A prodigy, he made concert tours in Europe after leaving the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he studied with Dohnanyi. He was a prisoner during the war, then a political prisoner, and escaped to Paris after 1956. His repertoire consists mainly of Schumann, Chopin, and Liszt, whose paraphrasing technique he readopted. He restored a church in Senlis and created the Foundation Cziffra for young virtuosos. In 1977 he published his autobiography Des canons et des fleurs. His only son, Gyorgy Cziffra, an orchestra conductor, died in an accident in 1981. |
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