György Cziffra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

György Cziffra

Hungarian pianist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1921

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1994

Profession: composer, pianist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

György Cziffra (in Hungarian form Cziffra György ['t?sifr? '?ør?]; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994), also known as Georges Cziffra and George Cziffra, was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer.
He is considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Among his teachers were István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.He became a French citizen 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 of several orchestral works for the piano – among them, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube.