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Early compositions [ edit ]. Busoni and Bach [ edit ]. For broader coverage of this topic, see Bach-Busoni Editions. Writings [ edit ]. Mature compositions [ edit ]. Editions, transcriptions and arrangements [ edit ]. Recordings [ edit ]. Main article: Ferruccio Busoni discography as pianist. Piano rolls [ edit ]. Legacy [ edit ]. See also: Ferruccio Busoni discography.

Notes and references [ edit ]. Busoni's great-great-grandfather on his mother's side was half-Jewish although he may not have been aware of this ; [ 27 ] Busoni used Jewish melodies to characterize a Jewish character in his opera Die Brautwahl ; [ 28 ] when during World War I Busoni took a stand against German aggression, Hans Pfitzner took the occasion to call his views "a manifestation of the international Jewish movement" against Germany; [ 29 ] in Busoni referred to his pupil Kurt Weill as "a very fine Jew, who will certainly make his way".

Beaumont , pp. Berlin: M. London: Rockliff, EMI Archive Trust. Retrieved 3 August The Piano Quarterly. Sources [ edit ]. Beaumont, Antony Busoni the Composer. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN Beaumont, Antony, ed. Busoni: Selected Letters. New York:Columbia University Press. Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Musical Thoughts and After-Thoughts.

London: Robson Books. Busoni, Ferruccio Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music. Translated by Theodore Baker. New York: G. OCLC Couling, Della Ferruccio Busoni: "A Musical Ishmael". Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. Dent, Edward J. In Rowland, David ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Piano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hamilton, Kenneth After the Golden Age.

Horowitz, Joseph 23 April The New York Times. Retrieved 29 May Thematisch-chronologisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Ferruccio B. Studien zur Musikgeschichte des Jahrhunderts, vol. Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag. The Journal of Musicology. JSTOR Busoni as Pianist. Translated by Svetlana Belsky. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.

Leichtentritt, Hugo The Musical Quarterly. Ferruccio Busoni: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in Music, no. Revue de Musicologie. The Mirror of Music — London: Novello and Company. The concerto is written for a large orchestra with a male voice choir that is hidden from the audience's view in the last movement. British pianist John Ogdon , one of the champions of the work, called it "the longest and grandest piano concerto of all.

Busoni's Turandot Suite , probably his most popular orchestral work, was expanded into his opera Turandot in , and Busoni completed two other operas, Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino He began serious work on his best known opera, Doktor Faust , in , leaving it incomplete at his death. It was then finished by his student Philipp Jarnach , who worked with Busoni's sketches as he knew of them, but in the s Antony Beaumont , the author of an important Busoni biography, created an expanded and improved completion by drawing on material that Jarnach did not have access to.

The essence of music suggests that music is free from any prescriptive labels; in other words, it is absolute. For example, Busoni asked us to question just what it was in a piece of instrumental church music, that was inherently 'church'. The oneness of music proposes that music is free from prescriptive devices, and that there are endless possibilities of composition.

By studying Busoni's aesthetic beliefs we can suggest that his music is metatonal - given that he sought to include the old with the new to create limitless compositions. This is not to suggest as Pfitzner did, when he attacked The Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Busoni that his music is without form, nor is it without any sense of tonality a common mistake when one finds oneself between Classical and Serial music.

This grey area of music history is more engaging because the traditional forms and pitch structures have taken a side road, a road that did not ultimately lead to serialism. In order to understand Busoni's compositions one should take only what is given in the music, and interpret them through his aesthetic beliefs though this is no easy task, and the everpresent binarism between what a composer says and what a composer does should be kept in mind.

Busoni can be recognised as a man with a variety of musical abilities. He wrote compositions and libretti, performed as a concert pianist, transcribed pieces by other composers such as Bach, Mozart and Liszt , taught master classes, and produced aesthetic writings. It is to this end that Busoni considered music a fusion of disciplines, or to use his words 'to recognise the whole phenomenon of music as 'oneness'.

Busoni, 'The Essence of Oneness of Music', Busoni edited and transcribed works by other composers, in particular those of Bach , Liszt , and Mozart. The best known of these is his edition of the solo keyboard works of Bach , which he edited with the assistance of his students Egon Petri and Bruno Mugellini. He adds tempo markings, articulation and phrase markings, dynamics and metronome markings to the original Bach, as well as extensive performance suggestions.

In the Goldberg Variations BV B 35 , for example, he suggests cutting eight of the variations for a "concert performance", as well as substantially rewriting many sections. The edition of the Goldberg Variations remains controversial, but has recently been reprinted. Busoni became so well-known as a transcriber of Bach's pieces, that the name "Bach-Busoni" was sometimes mistaken for his surname, and on one occasion his wife was introduced to someone as "Mrs.

He edited three volumes of the volume Franz Liszt Stiftung edition of Liszt's works, including most of the etudes. The Liszt edition was a scholarly endeavor and was faithful to the originals, but Busoni also prepared more freely adapted versions intended for concert performance, including transcriptions of the Paganini-Liszt etudes. Another famous transcription is his piano arrangement of Franz Liszt's organ work Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" BV B Unfortunately for posterity, Busoni never recorded his original works.

The value of these recordings in ascertaining Busoni's performance style is a matter of some dispute. Many of his colleagues and students expressed disappointment with the recordings and felt they did not truly represent Busoni's pianism. His student Egon Petri was horrified by the piano roll recordings when they first appeared on LP and said that it was a travesty of Busoni's playing.

Similarly, Petri's student Gunnar Johansen who had heard Busoni play on several occasions, remarked, 'Of Busoni's piano rolls and recordings, only Feux follets Liszt's 5th Transcendental Etude is really something unique. The rest is curiously unconvincing.

Ferruccio busoni biography template

The recordings, especially of Chopin, are a plain misalliance'. However, Kaikhosru Sorabji , a fervent admirer, found the records to be the best piano recordings ever made when they were released. Categories : 20th century classical composers Italian classical pianists Italian composers Italian conductors Opera composers Romantic composers Neoclassical composers Natives of Tuscany births deaths.

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Ferruccio Busoni Biography. Login x Email Password Remember on this computer? Login or. Many of his colleagues and students expressed disappointment with the recordings and felt they did not truly represent Busoni's pianism. His student Egon Petri was horrified by the piano roll recordings when they first appeared on LP and said that it was a travesty of Busoni's playing.

Similarly, Petri's student Gunnar Johansen who had heard Busoni play on several occasions, remarked, "Of Busoni's piano rolls and recordings, only Feux follets Liszt's 5th Transcendental Etude is really something unique. The rest is curiously unconvincing. The recordings, especially of Chopin, are a plain misalliance. New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards.

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