György Cziffra on your fingertips

I would like to be the first French journalist to trace the name of György Cziffra.

You may have some difficulty pronouncing that name today.

Habit will help you, because it will be famous tomorrow.

Since Horowitz, the one before 1940, I do not remember having heard such a prodigious pianist, a playing so devoid of artifice. "

Today, we can hardly remember these few lines published in the columns of

by the critic Bernard Gavoty, alias Clarendon, on December 3, 1956, the day after the very first Parisian concert of what we still called György Cziffra - and not Georges, as would become the case after his French naturalization in 1968.

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Sixty-five years later, the musician, who in the 1970s became a major contributor to French cultural life (through his foundation, which he installed in the Collegiate Church of Senlis, restored on his initiative, or of the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, of which he was the co-founder), suffers

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