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
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NY Times – After 50 Years and 9 Wives, Erwin Nyiregyhazi Is Back at the Piano
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 — Los Angeles Times [24 July 2011]
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]
LA Times: A Spiritual Connection: Ervin Nyiregyházi, Louis ‘Moondog’ Hardin and, yes, Bobby Fischer
Los Angeles Times: A spiritual connection: Ervin Nyiregyházi, Louis 'Moondog' Hardin and, yes, Bobby Fischer CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK By Mark Swed January 27, 2008 DURING the 1970s, I often spent time in the music room of the L.A. Central Library. One other regular was an elegant, if seedy, older gentleman, always dressed in the same threadbare suit and tie and loath to … [Read more...] about LA Times: A Spiritual Connection: Ervin Nyiregyházi, Louis ‘Moondog’ Hardin and, yes, Bobby Fischer
People Magazine: For Pianist Nyiregyhazi, Fame, Unjustly, Is Nine Wives and Ten Photographed Fingers
March 13, 1978, Vol. 9, No. 10 For Pianist Nyiregyhazi, Fame, Unjustly, Is Nine Wives and Ten Photographed Fingers When I play, it's as though I am Franz Liszt himself," says Californian Ervin Nyiregyházi. Even critics accept the braggadocio. A century back, composer Liszt was himself a child-prodigy pianist, flamboyant maestro and herculean womanizer. His reincarnation, … [Read more...] about People Magazine: For Pianist Nyiregyhazi, Fame, Unjustly, Is Nine Wives and Ten Photographed Fingers
