Michael Sayers performs Ervin Nyiregyhazi

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Member Since: 04/12/2007
Band Website: www.michaelsayers.com
Influences: "You are an incredibly original musician and pianist. Only in Ervin Nyiregyhazi have I heard this kind of playing, andwhile you don't have his demonic vehemence, you have an aural imagination second to none...The sound you produce isfascinating at all levels of dynamic...What is also fascinating is how you are able to maintain control over such huge spansof time. This in itself justifies your tempos. In the Chopin C Minor prelude, I don't believe anyone has ever played thepiece with such color and understanding of its internal nature...The chords in the Brahms are stupendous...Clearly you listenin 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.

http://www.ervinnyiregyhazi.net/
The International Ervin Nyiregyhazi Foundation

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-F ame_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_nyir egyhazi.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)

http://groups.myspace.com/ErvinNyiregyhazi
Myspace Ervin Nyiregyhazi group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ervinnyiregyhaziadmirersclub
Yahoo Ervin Nyiregyhazi group

http://groups.msn.com/ervinnyiregyhazi
MSN Ervin Nyiregyhazi group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyiregyhazi
Wikipedia Ervin Nyiregyhazi article

other music links:

http://www.ronaldstevensonsociety.org.uk/index.asp
The Ronald Stevenson Society

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/
The Liszt Society

http://www.americanlisztsociety.org/
American Liszt Society

http://www.scriabinsociety.com/
Scriabin Society of America

http://www.theberliozsociety.org.uk/
The Hector Berlioz Society

http://www.festivalberlioz.com/
Festival Berlioz

http://cristoforifund.tripod.com/
Cristofori Foundation (founded by pianist Martin Berkofsky)

http://www.michaelsayers.com/ferrucciobusoni.html
Michael Sayers' Ferruccio Busoni website

http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/indexx.html
Laureto Rodoni's Ferruccio Busoni website

http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/
The Sorabji Archive

http://www.gordonrumson.org/
Gordon Rumson, pianist and composer

http://www.michaelhabermann.com/
Michael Habermann, pianist

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabjigroup/
Yahoo Sorabji group

http://www.raff.org/
Joachim Raff Society

http://www.scriabinsociety.com/
Scriabin Society of America

http://www.cliburn.org/
Van Cliburn Foundation

http://www.callas.it/
Associazione Culturale Maria Callas

http://www.mvdaily.com/
Music and Vision magazine

http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/IPAM/index.html
The International Piano Archives at Maryland

http://www.intlpianoarchives.com/
International Piano Archives (founded by Albert Petrak and Gregor Benko)

http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/
University of Chicago, Chopin Early Editions

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/handle/1802/291/browse-auth or
University of Rochester, Sibley Music Library

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
International Music Score Library Project

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pianophiles/
Yahoo Pianophiles group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/great-pianists/
Yahoo Great Pianists group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/godowsky/
Yahoo Godowsky group
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