Aaron Gross

Source https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/05/archives/music-view-the-case-of-the-vanishing-pianist-music-view-nyiregyhazi.html HAROLD C. SCHONBERG March 5, 1978 Ervin Nyiregyhazi was in town the other week. The last time around was in the 1920's, when he was giving piano recitals in Aeolian Hall, long since gone, and making some critics wonder if Franz Liszt had been … [Read more...] about NY Times – Music View: The Case of the Vanishing Pianist

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/13/archives/after-50-years-and-9-wives-erwin-nyiregyhazi-is-back-at-the-piano.html Harold C. Schonberg, Feb. 13, 1978 ONCE ACCLAIMED a major pianist, but, absent from the scene for almost, 50 years, living in obscurity for most of those years in a Los Angeles slum, totally away from the keyboard, he has suddenly started playing … [Read more...] about NY Times – After 50 Years and 9 Wives, Erwin Nyiregyhazi Is Back at the Piano

The rise and bizarre fall of a musical prodigy A Hungarian pianist was hailed as a boy, played for royalty and later took New York by storm. But moving to L.A. proved, in many ways, to be his undoing, and he lived for decades in flophouse rooms. By Anthony Mostrom, Special to the Los Angeles Times July 24, 2011 He was a forlorn-looking figure, dressed in a rumpled … [Read more...] about The rise and bizarre fall of a musical prodigy — Los Angeles Times [24 July 2011]