Biography on ferruccio busoni

Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni (1866–1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher.

Works[edit]

Writings[edit]

• Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst, Triest: Schmidl, 1907; 2nd ed., exp., Leipzig: Insel, 1916, 48 pp, IA, WS-DE, PDF; new ed. as Entwurf einer neuen Ãsthetik der Tonkunst. Faksimile einer Ausgabe von 1916 mit den handschriftlichen Anmerkungen von Arnold Schönberg (c1917), ed. Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1974, 73 pp, IA; new ed., ed. & comm. Martina Weindel, Wilhelmshaven, 2001. (German)
  • Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, trans. Theodore Baker, New York: G. Schirmer, 1911, 45 pp, IA, IA, IA, PDF; repr. in Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music, New York: Dover, 1962, pp 73-102, IA.

• Von der Einheit der Musik – Verstreute Aufzeichnungen [1887-1922]. Mit einem Verzeichnisse seiner Werke und vier Handzeichnungen, Berlin: Max Hesse 1922, 381 pp, IA; new ed., ed. & comm. Martina Weindel, Wilhelmshaven, 2006. (German)

Correspondence[edit]

• Lettere a Isidor Philipp. Toute supériorité est un exil, ed. Laureto Rodoni, Rome: ISMEZ, 2005, 271 pp, PDF, part 1, PDF, part 2. (Italian)
• More.

Literature[edit]

• Hugo Leichtentritt, Ferruccio

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  Ferruccio Busoni

  “Only those who fathom forward quality happy.”
  (F. Busoni, Doktor Faust, 1924-5)

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  Ferruccio Busoni

  Italian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)

  "Busoni" redirects here. For other uses, see Busoni (disambiguation).

  Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary figures of his time, and he was a sought-after keyboard instructor and a teacher of composition.

  From an early age, Busoni was an outstanding, if sometimes controversial, pianist. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and then with Wilhelm Mayer and Carl Reinecke. After brief periods teaching in Helsinki, Boston, and Moscow, he devoted himself to composing, teaching, and touring as a virtuoso pianist in Europe and the United States. His writings on music were influential, and covered not only aesthetics but considerations of microtones and other innovative topics. He was based in Berlin from 1894 but spent much of World War I in Switzerland.

  He began composing in his early years in a late romantic style, but after 1907, when he published his Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, he developed a more individual style, often with elements of atonality. His visits to America led to interest in

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