György Cziffra

György Cziffra (in Hungarian form Cziffra György,, also known as Georges Cziffra and George Cziffra; 5 November 1921 – 15 January 1994), 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.