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3 unusual facts about Georges Cziffra


Georges Cziffra

Cziffra is also well known for his technically demanding transcriptions of several orchestral works for the piano – among them, one of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, written in interlocking octaves.

La Chaise-Dieu

French pianist Georges Cziffra started an annual festival of sacred music in La Chaise-Dieu in 1966.

Zsuzsa Mathe

- Georges Cziffra pianist master course, joint exhibit, Keszthely, June, 1987 - Castle Festetics


György Cziffra, Jr.

He nearly died as a child during imprisonment with his family when his father, famous pianist Georges Cziffra who had served in the Hungarian during World War II, was arrested for political reasons by communist authorities after World War II.


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