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Nyiregyhazi Archive

This section provides supplemental information to Kevin Bazzana's book "Lost Genius".




Musical Wonder Child. 1903-1920






Book

Psychology of a music prodigy by G. Revesz (signed by Nyiregyhazi himself), English edition, 1925

Psychology of a music prodigy by G. Revesz pdf version (signed by Nyiregyhazi himself), English edition, 1925

Concert Program

Max Fiedler (cond), BPO concert10/14/1915, Berlin

Solo recital, 10/14/1918, Denmark

Arthur Nikisch (cond), BPO concert 10/21/1918, Berlin

Ignaz Neumark (cond), National Theatrets Orkester concert, 11/23/18, Norway

Georg Schneevoigt, Nils Grevillius (cond), 01/16/1919, Sweden

Nils Grevillius (cond), 01/19/1919, Sweden

Solo concert, 1/22/1919, Sweden

Solo concert, 3/7/1919, Norway

Solo concert, 10/1/1919, Sweden

Solo concert, 10/6/1919, Sweden

Solo concert, 12/29/1919 Sweden

Georg Schneevoight (cond), Konsertforenlogens symphonikor, 01/8/1920, Sweden


Solo Recital, 1/11/1920, Sweden

Composition
Berceuse OP1, Chatter of Women Op2, Wedding march, Op3

Grande Sonate Heroique (1917), p1

Trimph!: Zwite Grosse Fantasie (1919), p1

Mephisto Fantasie (1919)

Photo
Nyiregyhazi standing at the Buckingham palace with his father (1911)


Nyiregyhazi at the age of fifteen (1918)





A Young Liszt for the Pianoforte. 1920-1928



Book
Psychology of a music prodigy by G. Revesz (signed by Nyiregyhazi himself), English edition, 1925

Psychology of a music prodigy by G. Revesz pdf version (signed by Nyiregyhazi himself), English edition, 1925

Concert Program

Pierre Monteux (cond), Boston Symphony Orchestra, 10/14-15/1921, Boston #1, #2
(See MusQS, too)

Pierre Monteux (cond), Boston Symphony Orchestra, 10/20/1921, Boston

Pierre Monteux (cond), Boston Symphony Orchestra, 11/27/1922, Boston

Ossip Gabrilowitsch (cond) Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 1921-22 season #1, #2

John Charles Thomas (Baritone), 1/1/1922, Boston #1, #2

John Charles Thomas (Baritone), 4/8/1923, Boston #1, #2

Solo Concert, 1/8/1923, NY #1, #2

Solo Concert, 1/9/1924, CA #1,
#2

Solo Concert, 1/25/1928, L.A.

Henry Schoenefeld (cond), The Woman's Symphony Orchestra 4/19/1928 L.A.

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US debut concert (Carnegie Hall), 10/18/1920

Solo concert (Carnegie Hall), 10/1/1921 #1, #2

Knabe booklet (1924)

Knabe poster (1921??)

Ampico ad for Sinding "Prelude" (1923)


Composition

"Amongst the ruins of the past", musicmanuscript #1, #2, and the sound file:
composed on March, 1927 and September, 1984


Photo

Nyiregyhazi arriving at Ellis island (1920)

Nyiregyhazi standing (1923)

Nyiregyhazi standing with a mask made by G.M. Brown(1920s)

Nyiregyhazi in 1920's

Nyiregyhazi at a piano (1920's)

Niyregyhazi on a chair (1920's)

Art

A bust (probably made by Charles Andrew Hafner, around 1920-21). The photo was taken by Nicholas Haz.

A mask (by "Grace Marion Browne" (possibly Grace Marion Brown, a graphic artist), around 1920-21)


Letter, MusQS

Nyiregyhazi MusQS, 10/15/1921



A Soldier of Fortune. 1928-1972




Concert Program

Modest Artschuler (cond), FMP symphony concert, 10/21,
24/1936,L.A.

Modest Artschuler (cond), FMP symphony concert, 1/27/37, L.A. #1, #2, #3

Modest Artschuler (cond), FMP, Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, 2/1/1938, L.A.

James Sample (cond), 12/25/1940, L.A.

Solo concert, 1/29/1941, L.A. #1, #2

Solo concert, 4/6/1941, CA (ticket)

Solo cincert series, 1944-45 (ticket)

Solo concert as "Mr.X", 5/13/1946

Solo concert, 7/27/1957, CA (English) (Hungarian)

Composition

"Longing for America", musicmanuscript, Feb-March, 1931

"A soldier of fortune", p1, (Rhythmic Notation)
May, 1939

Nontitled, musicmanuscript #1, #2:
composed during the fall in 1945

Untitled (Allegro Moderato), musicmanuscript #1, #2, #3: June, 1970, Vienna



Photo
Good-looking Nyiregyhazi around 1920s-30s

Nyiregyhazi's second wife, Xandra

Nyiregyhazi having a hangover?, 1930s

Nyiregyhazi WPA promotion photo, 1930s

Nyiregyhazi with his wife Genevieve, 1937

Nyiregyhazi wearing a Mask (Mr.X), 1946

Nyiregyhazi at 54, 1957

Nyiregyhazi passport photo#1, 1959??


Art

Willy Pogany's sketch of EN, 1941




The Pianist Who Came In from the Cold. 1972-1980



Concert Program

Solo concert at the century club, CA, 12/17/1972, #1, #2

Solo concert at the old first church, CA, 5/6/1973, #1, #2
(Desmar's "Two legends")

Solo concert at Forest Hill Club House, CA, 5/24/1973

Solo concert at Ronald F. Antonioli's house, CA, 7/29/1973, #1, #2, hand-written tracks by Nyiregyhazi

Solo concert at Ronald F. Antonioli's house, CA, 4/30/1978


Composition

Photo


L.A. Clark Hotel card

Nyiregyhazi passport photo#2 (undated)

Nyiregyhazi passport photo#3 (undated)

Nyiregyhazi passport photo#4 (undated)

Nyiregyhazi wearing a jacket

Nyiregyhazi standing on Ofarell street in San Francisco (Ofarell & Tayler) (by the San Francisco chronicle), August 1978


Photo(c) Yoshimasa Hatano

A Great Antithesis. 1980-1987







Concert Program

Solo Recitals, hand-written by Nyiregyhazi, 5/31/1980, 6/1/1980, Takasaki, Japan
(Contributed by Jun Kinoshita)

Solo Recitals, Takasaki (1/10/82) and Tokyo (1/21/82), Japan
1) Cover
2) p1
3) p2
4) p20
5) p21
6) p22, an advertisement for LP "The messenger of peace".
6) Program tracks (1/10/82) hand-written by Nyiregyhazi
7) Music manuscript shown in p20, "Ninety Five Years Ago", composed on 7/31/1981
(Contributed by Jun Kinoshita)

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Solo recital, Tokyo (1/21/82), Japan

Composition

"Japanese Monody", musicmanuscript, June 8, 1980
(Contributed by Jun Kinoshita)

"Ninety Five Years Ago", musicmanuscript, 7/31/1981

"Amongst the ruins of the past", musicmanuscript #1, #2, and the sound file:
composed on March, 1927 and September, 1984

"The Truncated Life-Task (No.I)", musicmanuscript #1, #2, April 4, 1986

"The Laughters of the Murderer", musicmanuscript #1, #2, April 27, 1986


Photo

1) Yoshimasa Hatano Photos
Attention---These photos, taken by a Japanese photographer Yoshimasa Hatano, are all copyrighted materials.

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo#22
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano)

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo#8
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano)

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo#20
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano)

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo#17
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano)

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo#4
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano)

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #7
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #21
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #11
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #10
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #6
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano)): "Lost Genius" cover photo

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #5
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))

Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #13
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))


Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #12
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))


Nyiregyhazi in Japan (1982) photo #15
((C) Yoshimasa Hatano))

2) Other photo

Nyiregyhazi passport photo#5 (1986~87?)

Nyiregyhazi's hands (taken by Doris Nyiregyhazi) #1, #2

Nyiregyhazi (without wearing a tie!) at home #1 (taken by Doris)

Nyiregyhazi at home #2 (taken by Doris)

Nyiregyhazi at home #3 (taken by Doris)

Nyiregyhazi at home #4 (taken by Doris)

Nyiregyhazi's gravestone, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale, CA

Nyiregyhazi funeral card #1, #2, #3





1987-present





Book

Lost Genius by Kevin Bazzana

Award

The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Musical Biography, in the “concert music” category (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), 2008

Edition
Canadian edition (2007)
US edition (2007)
"Pianist X" (tr. by Birgit Irgang), German edition (2007)
Canadian paperback edition (2008)

"Ushinawareta Tensai" (tr. by Keisuke Suzuki) Japanese edition

Bookreview
The globe and mail (by A. Kuerti)
(mirror site)
The star.com

Times Colonist
Quill and Quire
Review in Canada
Kirkus Review
Publisher's weekly reviews
Booklist (see the News (8/1/07) section)
Library Journal (see the News (8/14/07) Section)

The New York Sun

The Washington Post (see: Japanese version)
The New Yorker
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
Die Zeit
Santa Fe New Mexican (visit p54-56)
CourierPost Online
American Hungarian Federation
The Los Angeles Times
Deserest Morning news
The Atlantic
Forbes
Palmbeachpost.com
the Chicago Tribune
The Buffalo News
The US paperback
Cape Gazette(see the news 9/21/08 section)
The American cultural magazine Chronicles (see the news 9/21/08 section)
Stephen Hough's blog

Radio interview
CBC radio
The Charles Taylor Prize Ceremony (10:30-15:40)
“Take 5,” on CIUT (89.5 FM), the campus station of the University of Toronto (46:10 to 56:35.)


Magazine/Journal
Piano (September/October 2007 issue)
International Piano (May/June, 2008 issue)


CD
Music and Arts (CD-1202), cover, tracklist

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