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Ervin Nyiregyhazi: Pianist, Child Prodigy & Comeback Musician
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12/21/04: Restoration of website. (MP3s offline until further notice due to bandwidth issues.)
11/14/03 PDF Images of Nyiregyhazi compositions! On the recordings page. Thank you Michael Sayers!
11/13/03 Windows media files of the rare Japanese album! On the recordings page.
12/11/02 A .wma file of Michael Sayers playing Nyiregyhazi's "Andante, Ethereal". The composition is Dated February 7, 1985. The recording occurred October 12, 2002 at Coe College.
5/21/02: Gregor Benko's liner notes to Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt, Recordings From the Collection of the International Piano Archives
5/14/02: Translation of a German letter written from Arnold Schonberg to Otto Klemperer about Nyiregyhazi. (Thanks to Gregor Benko!)
7/24/01: MP3s of most of the known piano rolls.
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According to his New York Times obituary, Ervin Nyiregyhazi was a Hungarian-born American pianist who dropped out of sight for decades and then made a remarkable comeback in the 1970's. Nyiregyhazi enjoyed a considerable career as a child prodigy in Europe, and then as a young virtuoso in Germany and the United States in the 1920's. Harold C. Schonberg, then chief music critic of The New York Times, wrote in 1978: |
"His playing was like nobody else's. He orchestrated at the piano, tremendous surges of tone and color. His tempos, his conception, his free attitude toward the printed note, his Romantic musical mannerisms -- all these set him apart."
Ervin Nyiregyhazi was my father-in-law's first cousin. I am trying to create a comprehensive resource page for information about Nyiregyhazi, his life, family, friends, etc. This site was started in December 1998, as a sub-page of my website and I obtained the current domain name for it in December of 1999.
It is largely unedited, as my bias is to provide as much information as possible, list the sources of that information, and then let the qualified scholars achieve their own consensus.
If there are errors, please forgive me and send me corrections and I will gladly post them to the site for future visitors and I will add you to my acknowledgements section.
My role is as an impetus, not an authority.
-- Aaron Gross
January, 2000
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