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Ervin Nyiregyhazi
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Ervin Nyiregyházi, pianist and composer"

Netherlands, Japan, Norway, United States
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Ervin Nyiregyhazi in 1978

the composition is Emile R. Blanchet's
Au jardin du vieux Serail
(Op. 18 No. 3)






Ervin Nyiregyhazi plays from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, and from Liszt's Liebestraume No. 1 in A flat Major, for The Lost Zeppelin (a 1929 Tiffany Pictures talkie)






an Ervin Nyiregyhazi timeline



1903 Born January 19th in Budapest, Hungary.
1907 First formal compositions.
1909 Introduced his works at a recital in Fiume.
1910 Enrolled at the Academy of Music in Budapest. Studied theory with Leo Weiner and Albert Siklos. Studied piano with Istvan (Stephan) Thoman, a former Liszt pupil, and Arnold Szekely, Toman's own pupil.
1911 Invited to play for Queen Mary in Buckingham Palace.
1914 The death of Nyiregyhazi's father.
1915 Berlin Philharmonic debut.
1916 Finished lessons with Erno von Dohnanyi.
1918 Called in substitute for Rachmaninoff to Oslo to play the first Tchaikovsky piano concerto.
1919 Tour of the neutral Scandanavian countries.
1920 Carnegie Hall debut on October 18. Joined the roster of R.E. Johnston.
1921 Three concerts at Carnegie Hall.
1924 Publication of "The Psychology of a Musical Prodigy" by Dr. Geza Revesz.
1925 Sued manager R.E. Johnston.
1926 Married for the first time. Nyiregyhazi performed in Aeolian Hall.
1927 Employed by Hugo Reisenfeld at United Artists, where he had to play at sight any new fully-orchestrated scores brought into the office.
1930 Performed in Budapest, Vienna and Holland.
1934 Performed at the Budapest home of violinist Jeno Hubay.
1938 Concert in Oslo.
1959 Nyiregyhazi returned to Europe for a few concerts, but since then rarely ventured to play in public.
1972 Nyiregyhazi married his ninth wife, Elsie.
1973 Gave a few recitals to cover medical bills for Elsie.
1974 Recorded in Los Angeles for the International Piano Archives.
1977 Release of the International Piano Archives/Desmar album "Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt".
1978 Further recordings for the International Piano Archives. CBS/Columbia Records double album "Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt" produced.
1978 "Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt" for Columbia Records was Stereo Review's record of the year.
1980 Japan performances on May 31 and June 1. The Japan Nyiregyhazi Association was established.
1982 On January 10, Nyiregyhazi Performed some of his own works at the Gunma Music Center. On January 21, Nyiregyhazi gave his last concert in Japan at the Tokyo Daiichi Seimi Hall.
1987 Nyiregyhazi passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 84.


timeline sources



"Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt" CBS/Columbia Records liner notes

"Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt" International Piano Archives/Desmar IPA 111 liner notes

Stereo Review, 1978

Takasaki Art Center College Institute of Art and Culture, "Nyiregyhazi and Takasaki Art Center College"

Time Magazine, May 29, 1978, "Nine Wives and 700 Works Later"


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Wikipedia Ervin Nyiregyhazi article

http://www.nyiregyhazi.org/
Ervin Nyiregyhazi website, managed by Aaron Gross

http://fugue.us/Ervin.html
Ervin Nyiregyhazi website with movie mp3s, rare photos and more

http://www.michaelsayers.com/ervinnyiregyhazi.html
Ervin Nyiregyhazi website, managed by Michael Sayers

http://www.marymaclane.com/nyiregyhazi/
Ervin Nyiregyhazi website, managed by Michael Brown

http://www.vai-music.com/CD/1003.htm
VAI Audio
Nyiregyhazi at the Opera cd release

http://www.amica.org/Live/amica_Organization/amica-Hall-of-Fame_Members/nyiregyhazi.htm
AMICA Hall of Fame:
Ervin Nyiregyhazi Gives recital in Novato, CA
by Bill Knorp, The AMICA, V. 10, No 9, Sept 1973;
obituary from the AMICA, May/June 1987

http://www.americanhungarianfederation.org/culturalnews_nyiregyhazi.htm
American Hungarian Federation Cultural News: Ervin Nyiregyhazi

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,919731,00.html
Nine Wives and 700 Works Later by Annalyn Swan
Time Magazine, Monday May 29, 1978

http://www.classicalnotes.net/features/joachim4.html
In search of...The Most Important Record Ever Made
(article by Peter Gutmann, that in part is written about Nyiregyhazi)

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Ervin Nyiregyházi in Performance
Live Recordings 1972-1982

Ervin Nyiregyhazi in 

Performance

Works by

Liszt, Brahms, Schubert
Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin
Debussy, Chopin and Rachmaninov

Digitally remastered in 2007

Music and Arts CD 1202


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Music and Arts CD 1202

CD No. 1: Liszt, Brahms, Scriabin, Grieg (76:28)

01 Liszt: Legendes: No. 1, "St. Francois d'Assise: la predication aux oiseaux" (13:06)

02 Liszt: Legendes: No. 2, "St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots" (9:39)

03 Liszt (arr. Nyiregyhazi): Excerpts from No. 5 ("Elizabeth") of the oratorio Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth (7:23)

04 Liszt: Zwei KonzertetudenL No. 1, "Waldesrauschen" (5:56)

05 Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, deuxieme annee, Italie: No. 6, "Sonetto 123 Petrarca" (8:01)

06 Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, troisieme annee: No. 2, "Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este" (No. 1, 3/4) (7:47)

07 Liszt: Annees de pelerinage, premiere annee, Suisse: No. 2, "Au lac de Wallenstadt" (4:12)

08 Brahms: Intermezzo in E-flat Minor, Op. 118/No. 6 (6:23)

09 Scriabin: Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, Op. 30 (two linked movements, 8:14)

10 Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: No. 4, "Notturno" (5:42)

CD No. 2: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Schubert (74:51)

01 Tchaikovsky: Douze morceaux, Op. 40: No. 8, "Valse" in A-flat Major (5:37)

02 Tchaikovsky: Romance in F Minor, Op. 5 (7:22)

03 Debussy: Estampes: No. 1, "Pagodes" (6:25)

04 Debussy: La plus que lente (4:59)

05 Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 6/No. 2 (4:19)

06 Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 28/No. 10 ( :45)

07 Chopin: Mazurka in F Minor, Op. 63/No. 2 (2:37)

08 Chopin: Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33/No. 4 (6:09)

09 Chopin: Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55/No. 1 (6:58)

10 Rachmaninov (arr. Nyiregyhazi): Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, II: Adagio sostenuto (15:51)

11 Schubert (arr. Nyiregyhazi): "Der Wanderer" (6:55)

12 Schubert (arr. Nyiregyhazi): "Heidenroslein" (2:07)

13 bonus track - Cameron O'Day Macpherson: "Before the Dawn" from Deserted Garden (4:39)
Los Angeles Federal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Modest Altschuler


sources



CD No. 1, tracks 1, 2; CD No. 2, track 9
SOURCE: Old First Church, San Francisco, 6 May 1973

CD No. 1, tracks 3, 4, 5, 8
SOURCE: Home of Ronald Antonioli, Novato, California, 29 July 1973

CD No. 1, track 6; CD No. 2, tracks 5, 6, 7, 8
SOURCE: Century Club of California, San Francisco, 17 December 1972

CD No. 1, track 7; CD No. 2, track 10
SOURCE: Dai-ichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, 21 January 1982

CD No. 1, tracks 9, 10; CD No. 2, tracks 1, 3, 4
SOURCE: Forest Hill neighborhood association clubhouse, San Francisco, 24 May 1973

CD No. 2, tracks 2, 12
SOURCE: Takasaki College of Music, Takasaki, Japan, 1 June 1980

CD No. 2, track 11
SOURCE: Takasaki College of Music, Takasaki, Japan, 31 May 1980

CD No. 2, track 13
SOURCE: Federal Music Project, Program No. 76, 1936





The first, Canadian edition of the Ervin Nyiregyhazi (b. Budapest, 1903 - d. Los Angeles, 1987) biography, authored by Kevin Bazzana, was published in February 2007 by McClelland & Stewart.

Kevin Bazzana with Lost Genius
Click here to reach the McClelland & Stewart page about Kevin Bazzana's Ervin Nyiregyhazi biography (Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick).


The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician.

The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,” yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin Nyiregyházi (nyeer-edge-hah-zee) was a remarkable prodigy: at eight he performed at Buckingham Palace, and when he was thirteen a psychologist published a book about him. In his teens, his idiosyncratic, intensely Romantic playing electrified audiences and astounded critics in Europe and America. But his adult career quickly foundered, and he was reduced to penury.

In 1928, he settled in Los Angeles, and eventually he withdrew from public life, preferring to spend his time quietly composing. Psychologically, he remained a child, and found the ordinary demands of daily life onerous — he struggled even to dress himself. He drank heavily, was insatiable sexually (he married ten times), and described himself as “a fortissimo bastard,” yet such was his talent and charisma that he numbered among his friends and champions celebrities such as Jack Dempsey, Theodore Dreiser, Bela Lugosi and Gloria Swanson. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he enjoyed a brief, sensational and controversial renaissance before slipping back into obscurity. He died in 1987.

Lost Genius, the product of ten years’ research, is the first biography of Nyiregyházi, whose story is among the most fascinating — and bizarre — in twentieth-century music.

The U.S. edition is anticipated around September 1st, from Carroll & Graf (New York). A German edition, from Schott (Berlin), is expected for this fall.

about Kevin Bazzana



Kevin 

Bazzana

Kevin Bazzana holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997) and Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (2003), which won the Toronto Book Award and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and has been published in six languages. He lives in Brentwood Bay, B.C.

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Aug 19 2008 12:16 AM

Kevin,
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