"You are an incredibly original musician and pianist. Only in Ervin Nyiregyhazi have I heard this kind of playing, and
while you don't have his demonic vehemence, you have an aural imagination second to none...The sound you produce is
fascinating at all levels of dynamic...What is also fascinating is how you are able to maintain control over such huge spans
of time. This in itself justifies your tempos. In the Chopin C Minor prelude, I don't believe anyone has ever played the
piece with such color and understanding of its internal nature...The chords in the Brahms are stupendous...Clearly you listen
in a wonderfully creative way."
Gordon Rumson, pianist and composer
Ervin Nyiregyhazi, child prodigy pianist and composer, performed extensively between 1909 and
1930. His 1920s Carnegie Hall debut is said to have received a much more enthusiastic
response than that of Vladimir Horowitz a few years later. Following a lawsuit against
his manager (R.E. Johnston - who, to judge from accounts in Andre Benoist's "The
Accompanist", may not have had a performer's best interests at heart), Nyiregyhazi's
performing career dissipated. He participated in some movies, was juror at a piano competition
in which one of the participants was Raymond Lewenthal (whom Nyiregyhazi voted for - but who
also did not win the competition), and composed. A live broadcast during the 1940s of him performing
Ferenc Liszt's (or, Germanized, Franz Liszt's) second piano concerto, has never surfaced as having
been recorded. Similarly, a 1960s private recording of Liszt's B Minor Sonata, has remained elusive.
To defray his ninth wife's medical expenses, Nyiregyhazi gave a number of recitals in the 1970s,
primarily of repertoire by Ferenc Liszt, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Claude
Debussy and Theodore Leschetizky, which led to a Desmar LP ("Nyiregyhazi Plays Liszt") produced under
the auspices of the International Piano Archives, and a Columbia Records two-LP Liszt set that was
Stereo Review's record of the year in 1978. Following this, Nyiregyhazi was offered return concerts
at Carnegie Hall, but Nyiregyhazi declined. He continued to compose, performed in Japan in 1980
and 1982, and died of colon cancer in 1987.
You have listened to the music…. Read the blogs….. Now read this one, The Longest road home….. do you want to support someone who cares or are you going to continue to pay lip service?
Hey! Thank you so much for adding! I am now facing a problem because one piece I wanted to add is Mozart Sonata K. 330 but it happens to be on a recording that Musiko Ushida has. I mean everyone can play that. I tried to upload too many times and now I am being blocked by MySpace. I sent them inquiries but I still have not got anything from them yet... it is already a week for that problem :(
After travelling through time and space, Moonlight has finally arrived at my page. The famous first movement from Beethovens's sonata, as you never heard it before. Put your feet up and enjoy!
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