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Hungarian pianist and composer

This article is about the pianist. For his son, the conductor, see György Cziffra Jr.

The native form of this personal name is Cziffra Krisztián György. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Musical artist

Christian Georges Cziffra (Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈɟørɟˈt͡sifrɒ]; born Cziffra KrisztiánGyörgy; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994) was a Hungarian-French virtuosopianist and composer.

He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century.^[1] Among his teachers was Ernő Dohnányi, a pupil of István Thoman, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.^[2]

Born in Budapest, he became a French national 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 or paraphrases of several orchestral works for the piano, includ