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	Ferruccio Busoni -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Busoni was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Empoli) Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a (A single-reed instrument with a straight tube) clarinettist.
		Busoni had a brief period of study in (An industrial city is southeastern Austria) Graz before leaving to (A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center) Leipzig in 1886.
		Busoni died in (Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) Berlin from a (Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine; urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder) kidney disease.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/ferruccio_busoni.htm (1109 words)

	Ferruccio Busoni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Busoni was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinettist.
		Busoni's music is typically contrapuntally complex, with several melodic lines unwinding at once.
		Busoni made a considerable number of piano rolls, and a small number of these have been re-recorded onto vinyl record or CD.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferruccio_Busoni (1232 words)

	The Dangerous Issue of Modern Music in the...
		Busoni always considered that any musical innovation should be firmly grounded on the achievements of past composers, and fiercely opposed the employment of new means just for the sake of their novelty.
		Busoni was emphasising the need to transcend the narrowness of our tonal system, pointing out that the division of the octave into equidistant degrees is only a convention, which does not take into account that "Nature created an infinite gradation" (14).
		Busoni tries to integrate the new to his sense of tradition, of stemming from a classical ground, a ground that was still the basis on which music should develop.
	www.rem.ufpr.br /REMv2.1/vol2.1/The_Dangerous_Issue.html (2999 words)

	Feruccio Busoni (1866-1924) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Busoni made an immense contribution to electronic music when he wrote his book Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music in 1907, having heard about the new instrument created by Thaddeus Cahill, the telharmonium.
		Busoni and Varèse became acquaintances and both remained interested in the role electronic music was to play.
		Luening, who was at the time looking for a composition instuctor, became a student of Busoni and was influenced by his views toward new music, particularly electronic instruemtns and music.
	www-camil.music.uiuc.edu /Projects/EAM/busoni.html (382 words)

	Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
		Ferruccio Busoni was a child prodigy who made his public debut at the age of seven and a half and at eight, performed Mozart's C Minor Piano Concerto.
		Busoni was a thoughtful and scholarly pianist, departing from the showy excesses of romanticism and instead, striving towards deeper content, clarity of form, and pure objectivism.
		Busoni's creative philosophy was against that which communicated a subjective (sensual/erotic) experience, and called for a purer, larger objectivity in which music could elevate, enrich, and certainly reach that beauty which is absolute and perfect.
	www.sequenza21.com /Busoni.html (1499 words)

	GMCD 7189 - The Eye of the Storm - Busoni
		Busoni’s own works are well represented on CD; the purpose of the present recording is rather to portray the Zurich music scene of his day, using documents from the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (the Zurich Central Library), which houses the largest collection of music manuscripts in Switzerland.
		Busoni wrote the libretto for Jarnach himself, but the latter found the mixture of pantomime, song and spoken text not to his liking, and turned it down.
		They did not, perhaps, attain the fame of Busoni or even Othmar Schoeck, but this CD provides ample evidence of the high quality of their work, and they cannot be ignored if one is to gain a clearer picture of the times in which they and their more famous contemporaries all lived and worked.
	www.guildmusic.com /catalog/gui7189z.htm (1670 words)

	Nimbus Records, Grand Piano, NI 8810, Ferruccio Busoni plays Liszt, Bach, Busoni & Chopin - Booklet Note
		Busoni was one of the last great incarnations of Romanticism and his playing projected the feeling that music had no boundaries or limits of expression.
		Busoni said, "Chopin attracted and repelled me all my life." Chopin was the composer that in his playing he was most frequently condemned, his Chopin being too monumental, lacking in romance, bursting its form with too much muscle.
		Busoni doubtless considered Liszt an ideal, and wrote that, "He lifted the piano to a princely position in order that it might be worthy of himself." The two great virtuosos had much in common, and the Italianate Lisztian melody was deeply attractive to Busoni, by temperament, and it lurks in many of his works.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/gpiano/8810c.html (2905 words)

	Busoni
		Busoni was a child prodigy, and at the age of seven, he already played for an audience.
		Luening, who was at the time looking for a composition instructor, became a student of Busoni and was influenced by his views toward new music, particularly electronic instruments and music.
		Busoni composed operas, including "Turandot" and "Doctor Faust", a series of orchestral works, including a piano concerto that also uses a male chorus in the finale, and various pieces of chamber music.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /busoni.html (1145 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ferruccio Busoni
		This article or section should be merged with Pipe organ The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is a type of keyboard musical instrument, distinctive because the sound is not produced by a percussion action, as on a piano or celesta, or by...
		The Busoni version of Liszt's La Campanella was championed by pianists such as Ignaz Friedman and Josef Lhevinne, but has since fallen into obscurity.
		Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ferruccio-Busoni (3254 words)

	Classical Net Review - Busoni - Arlecchino, Turandot
		Busoni wrote his operas late, when he was past fifty (he died in his fifties).
		Busoni's depicts the fairy-tale atmosphere and the rapid plot development of the Gozzi original.
		Her counterpart in Busoni is Adelma, a woman scorned who knows Kalaf's name and betrays it to Turandot in exchange for her freedom.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/v/vir59313a.html (1039 words)

	Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Biography / Biography of Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Biography Biography
		The Italian musician Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni (1866-1924) was one of the most distinguished and versatile musicians of his time, active as a pianist, conductor, teacher, and composer.
		Ferruccio Busoni, "Italian by birth and instinct, German by education and choice," was born in Empoli, near Florence, where his father was a professional clarinetist and his Italian-German mother was a pianist who gave Ferruccio his first lessons.
		Busoni was professor of piano at the Helsinki Conservatory in 1889, then in Moscow, and in Boston at the New England Conservatory.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ferruccio-benvenuto-busoni/index.html (639 words)

	Chapters from "Busoni" by Grigory Kogan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Busoni was the first pianist to have performed together as a whole the eighteen Etudes of Liszt, his Années, the 24 Preludes of Chopin, his four Ballades, etc.
		Busoni, however, pushes off that track: everything with him is more or less unexpected acquiring a new character and thoroughly different lighting.
		The differences in the attitude toward Busoni's liberties were determined by the differences in the aesthetic position of the critics.
	www.ninasvetlanova.com /Busoni/BusoniChapters.html (2112 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The son of an Italian musician father and a German pianist mother, Ferruccio Busoni represented a remarkable synthesis of two differing attitudes to music, while winning an outstanding reputation as a piano virtuoso.
		Busoni composed operas, including Turandot and Doktor Faust, a series of orchestral works, including a piano concerto that also uses a male chorus in the finale, and various pieces of chamber music.
		Of the various works Busoni composed or transcribed for the piano one of the most impressive is the famous arrangement of Bach's Chaconne for unaccompanied violin, one of a number of works based on Bach.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Busoni,+Ferruccio (159 words)

	Ferruccio Busoni
		In his music, Busoni constructed new scales because he refused to accept the limitations of major and minor modes.
		Busoni saw in the Dynamophone a new source of sound materials as well as a source of just intonation.
		Busoni's enthusiasm for the new Dynamophone led him to prophesy "...I almost think that in the new great music, machines will also be necessary and will be assigned a share in it." (3)
	csunix1.lvc.edu /~snyder/em/busoni.html (645 words)

	Busoni and His Legacy
		Busoni intended his work to be a modernist evocation of a dance which originated in Southern Italy as an ancient folk cure for tarantula bites in the belief that its rhythm would provoke a spasmodic dance in the victim, effecting a healing.
		Busoni himself said he was 'enamored of form' (in this he was an authentic Italian), but I couldn't free myself from the impression that he often did not uncover this 'enamorment of form', closing himself to the content's truth.
		She did Busoni's memory a service by translating his letters to his wife Gerda; these were published in 1938 as well as The Essence of Music and other papers in 1957.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /notes/134notes.html (4058 words)

	Busoni The Visionary
		The usual line about Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) is that his ideas were more important than his music, yet the more of his music I hear, the more I'm inclined to question that notion.
		Moved by the wretched state of the North American Indians, Busoni wrote these pieces feeling that music was able to "transcend all boundaries." Busoni's pupil Egon Petri performed these pieces on the radio in 1959.
		Her plans are to record Busoni's music in its entirety over the next ten years or so.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Busoni.html (713 words)

	Ferruccio Busoni
		In 1950, The International Ferruccio Busoni Prize, instituted by the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, presented every other year to the composer who contributed most significantly to contemporary music, was awarded to Igor Stravinky by an international jury of critics.
		Busoni was highly regarded as a teacher, and taught at the Helsingfors (Finland) Conservatory (It was to this conservatory that he dedicated his edition of the Bach Inventions), the Moscow Conservatory, the New England Conservatory, as well as, the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
		Busoni himself regarded the quartet as a work of his "youth", and stated that he did not find his way as a composer until his Second Violin Sonata, Op.
	www.fuguemasters.com /busoni.html (1391 words)

	Natalie Curtis Burlin, Ferruccio Busoni, and Percy Grainger
		Natalie Curtis Burlin, Ferruccio Busoni, and Percy Grainger
		In 1911, Busoni asked Curtis to send him a selection of Indian melodies that might serve as suitable themes for an experimental composition.
		Busoni, Grainger, and Curtis were all interested in the use of folk themes in composition.
	www.nataliecurtis.org /busoni.html (317 words)

	SoundStage! Marc-André Hamelin - Ferrucio Busoni
		Busoni himself was a pianistic Titan, second only to Liszt as history's greatest pianist, as those who heard both men play have said.
		Like his friend Mahler, he wanted to be known as a composer, but financial circumstances necessitated performing as a means of earning a living (and, in both men's cases, of helping support their families back home).
		Elder is one of the leading Busoni conductors working now; his way with the composer's scores is masterly; and this, it seems to me, is the problem with this new disc: Hamelin's personality is almost entirely submerged beneath that of his conductor.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev211.htm (828 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: The Busoni Enigma
		Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) was once venerated as the towering composer, theorist, and pianist of his age.
		Indeed, his legacy as a mere arranger is so pervasive that when his daughter-in-law, Hannah, ran the Busoni Society from her New York apartment in the 1980s, a weekly trip to the local grocery store reportedly brought her the greeting: "How nice to see you again, Mrs.
		Busoni's futuristic theoretical writings reveal other facets of this approach: A creative artist, he believed, must shake himself free from tradition.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/74.html (965 words)

	Anna Ficarella, Ferruccio Busoni und sein Verhältnis zu Italien, Leseprobe aus: Aspetti musicali 1600-2000, FS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Das Verhältnis Ferruccio Busonis zu Italien war immer durch eine starke, gleichzeitig widerstreitende Sehnsucht nach dem eigenen Heimatland charakterisiert, die wohl typisch für jeden 'entwurzelten' Künstler ist, der sich in der Fremde nicht dem kulturellen Klima seiner Herkunft entsprechend entwickeln kann.
		Der widersprüchliche Charakter der Beziehung Busonis zu Italien wird vor allem während der Kriegsjahre und in der unmittelbar darauf folgenden Zeit deutlich, als er sich der italienischen musikalischen Avantgarde gegenübersieht, die in der Figur Alfredo Casellas kulminiert.
		Busoni erkannte historische Irrtümer in den Positionen der 'Italiener'.
	www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/muwi/fsk/ficarella.html (421 words)

	WNYC - Music - The great, mysterious Ferruccio Busoni
		On January 19, pianist Garrick Ohlsson begins a three-concert series at Alice Tully Hall titled "Busoni at the Keyboard," which features music by Busoni as well as two composers he revered, Liszt and Bach (including, on this concert, the epic Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue).
		Particularly controversial was Busoni's Chopin, and it's easy to understand why: perfunctory and utterly devoid of gushy romanticism it flies in the face of the reigning saloniste style of the early 20th century.
		Petri was Busoni's most famous pupil, who acquired his teacher's knack for speed and brilliance, but none of his obsession with the music's shadowier elements.
	www.wnyc.org /music/articles/10291 (610 words)

	Busoni Six Sonatas Pontinen [CA]: Classical Reviews- August 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Busoni's mature musical language is a mix of classical foundation while enveloping new developments.
		In all the music on this CD, Busoni's clarity of thought is evident, even when he is extending harmonic possibilities, experimenting with music's 'divine' expression, and communing, possibly, with a mystical deity, possibly God, maybe the Devil, perhaps both - or something occult-manifested, which he had an interest in.
		As re-thought by Busoni, the work's profile, irrespective of whoever originally composed it, is heightened because of Busoni's harmonic overlay, his re-signing of it, and his re-creativity.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Aug01/Busoni_6Sonatas.htm (908 words)

	Doktor Faust - Ferruccio Busoni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Libretto as Literature: Doktor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni
		The two operas are separated by three-quarters of a century and they both use many of the same plot elements, but Busoni surely has moved to a 20th century viewpoint and a sound very different from Berlioz' 19th century romanticism.
		Busoni died before completing the opera; rather than use one of the subsequently fabricated endings, this production ends there, where Busoni left off.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/DoktorFaust.htm (638 words)

	BUSONI and his pupils 8.110777 [CH]: Classical CD Reviews- October 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An aura of mystique surrounds the name of Ferruccio Busoni which is out of all proportion to the surviving evidence of his playing, let alone the tenuous hold his compositions have on the repertoire.
		In spite of Busoni’s unease with the recording process his love of Bach led him to offer to record the 48 Preludes and Fugues complete, but the idea was rejected.
		Though Busoni does not hold back when barnstorming is inevitable, he seeks out the music’s delicacy wherever possible, perhaps even too much so; more recently Brendel has shown that it is possible to treat these Rhapsodies musically without curtailing their gipsy spirit.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/Oct04/Busoni_pupils.htm (1332 words)

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