Nyiregyhazi Piano Collection

Valse mélancolique ( Melancholy Waltz )
Mephisto triumphiert ! Fantasie No 1 ( Mephisto Triumphs Fantasy No 1 )
Chansson passionnée ( Passionate song )
Dolcissimo ( Very sweet )
Nocturne
A Száguldó Élet ( Petofi verse nyomán ) ( The Fast-Paced Life , after Petöfi's Poem )
Sweet Memories
A Soldier of Fortune
Checkmate No 2
Suhint a Sors ( Fate Swishes )
Untitled No 1
Untitled No 2
The Suicide of Géza Kovácks ( in 1942 )
Untitled No 3
Richard Wagner - Venezia ( In Memoriam 1883 )
Wir dachten der Toden ( No 6 ) ( We Thought of the Dead No 6 )
Forty-Four Years Ago ( In Memoriam August 9 1940 )
Arriving at the 125th Street Railroad Station in New York Ciry March 1927 ( Sad Vista )
Eletem Utolso Szakasza ( Last Stage of My Life )
The Unsolved Riddle
Sirko Felirat ( Epitaph )
Monuments in Ruins
In Memoriam November 22 1963 ( The Murder of the President John F. Kennedy )
The Lost Childhood ( No 2 )
A Megsonkitott Elet ( The Truncated Life )
Untitled No 4
Adored Baby ( Doris Nyiregyházi )
The Laughter of the Murderer
Untitled No 5
Szalassy to the Gallows
Silvar Jovo ( Bleak Future )
The Terrer of Playing Beethoven's Apassionata in Concert
Hundred Years ago To-day Franz Liszt Died ( July 31 1886 )
Lonely Heart
In Memoriam Liberace
Untitled No 6

rvin Nyiregyhazi (1903–1987), a Hungarian who spent most of his life in America, was among the most gifted—and strangest—musicians of the twentieth century. He was an astonishing prodigy who became one of the greatest and most distinctive pianists ever heard, though his early international celebrity was followed by decades of obscurity and much personal and professional hardship. He was also a devoted and prolific but very private composer. This collection, which marks the first time any of his music has been commercially published since he was six years old, comprises 36 diverse piano pieces spanning the whole range of his output— pieces as idiosyncratic and uncategorizable as Nyiregyhazi himself.