| The Irwin Nyiregyhazi Appreciation Page He was a child musical prodigy whose talents were compared to those of Mozart and Saint-Saens ... Sometimes he lived in flophouses and slept on subways ... He was a celebrated pianist whom some called "the reincarnation of Liszt" ... He gave only a handful of concerts in the last 60 years of his life ...
Society prized him, but he played for gangsters and the motion pictures ... | 
