Windsor Life Magazine Article

June 19, 2010

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The Internationally Acclaimed & Gifted Daniel Wnukowski
From Windsor Life Magazine, Feb/March 2008 Edition

STORY BY LORI NEWTON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAMZA SARUNA

Every now and again throughout history, a child is discovered to possess such extraordinary talent at such an incredibly young age that it seems almost too unbelievable to be true. Whether they are in science, languages, the arts, athletics, or some other human endeavour, we call them child prodigies and we watch them in awe. Among musical prodigies we can point to Beethoven, Liszt, Mozart, Chopin, Paganini, Yehudi Menuhin and Yo-Yo Ma — all who displayed exceptional musical gifts at a very young age. The restof us mere mortals can only wonder what it might be like to possess so much awe inspiring talent.

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Chief what

April 7, 2009

Filed under: Diary Entries

Taken from the old website. Original post date: July 9, 2005

I am often asked to repeat his name…
Cziffra – Gyorgy Cziffra.

(OK, so it’s not as easy to remember as Bond – James Bond.)

But I am very pleased to see the revival of Cziffra amongst today’s listening audience. Gyorgy Cziffra was a Hungarian composer/pianist who lived at the heart of the 20th century’s greatest virtuosi. Although he was born in 1921 to a poor family of gypsy musicians, it wasn’t until 1947 that he was able to grow his career due to military services and even being a POW. In spite of wide acclaim, he (like Horowitz at one point) abandoned his career until the early 1990s when he gave a concert in Paris.

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