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	Busoni Ferruccio (1866 - 1924) - famous Busoni Ferruccio (1866 - 1924) Classics hit collection and Busoni Ferruccio ...
		Busoni’s parents were musical, his father a clarinettist of Corsican origin and his mother a pianist of German extraction.
		Busoni’s earliest compositions were written when he was seven, and at the same time he began his concert performing career, two years later playing Mozart’s Concerto in C minor K. 491 in public.
		As a pianist Busoni is thought by some today to be one of the greatest to have lived, and his recordings are some of the most important historical piano records we have.
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	Busoni
		Busoni was a child prodigy, and at the age of seven, he already played for an audience.
		Busoni and Varèse became acquaintances and both remained interested in the role electronic music was to play.
		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.
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	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Born near Florence in Italy, Busoni was the son of talented musicians.
		His father was Italian and his mother German and Ferruccio came to represent a remarkable synthesis of the two differing attitudes to music.
		Out 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.
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	Ferruccio Busoni information - Search.com
		Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz before leaving to Leipzig in 1886.
		Busoni died in Berlin from a kidney disease.
		It was then finished by his student Philipp Jarnach, who worked with Busoni's sketches as he knew of them, but in the 1980s Anthony 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.
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	88keys.com - The Composer-Pianists - Ferruccio Busoni
		Busoni defended his preoccupation with refining even the smallest details of the piano's expressive capabilities by citing a conversation with a stained-glass artisan, who demonstrated that only a fragment was needed to judge the greatness of a window.
		Busoni took every opportunity to expound upon his philosophy, as it contradicted prevailing attitudes: "During the lifelong course of his pianistic studies the editor has always endeavored to simplify the mechanism of piano playing and to reduce it to what is absolutely indispensable in movement and expenditure of strength.
		Busoni's few recordings, made in London in 1919 and 1922, reveal enough about his style to cast him as one of the major pianists of his era; however, their poor sound quality conveys little of the wide timbral variety and sophisticated pedal techniques he cultivated.
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	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.
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	Ferruccio Busoni: Biography - Classic Cat
		Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinetist.
		Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz where he conducted a performance of his own composition 'Stabat Mater' when he was twelve years old, before leaving to Leipzig in 1886.
		Busoni died in Berlin from a kidney disease.
	www.classiccat.net /busoni_f/biography.htm (1550 words)

	Ferruccio Busoni Summary
		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.
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		Busoni was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinettist.
		Busoni was a virtuoso pianist, and his works for piano are frequently very difficult to perform.
		Busoni is better known today as a composer and transcriber and most of his recordings as pianist are on rolls and not on discs.
	www.biblioreview.com /wikiget.asp?article_name=Ferruccio_Busoni&refer=NorthernStudio (955 words)

	Ferruccio Busoni (Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography
		Ferruccio Busoni was the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinettist.
		Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz before leaving to Leipzig in 1886.
		Busoni was a virtuoso pianist, and his works for piano are difficult to perform.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Lib/Busoni-Ferruccio.htm (1022 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)
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	Busoni-Trio: Presse
		Von Ferruccio Busoni gab es das Duo für zwei Flöten und Klavier.
		Namensgeber des "Busoni-Trios" ist der deutsch-italienische Pianist, Komponist, Dirigent und Musikpädagoge Ferruccio Busoni (1864 bis 1924).
		Heike Eickhoff schwärmte: "Busoni ist eine faszinierende Persönlichkeit - durch unsere Namensgebung möchten wir auf ihn aufwerksam machen." Busoni sorgte 1917 mit seinem futuristisch anmutenden Buch "Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst" für Furore: In diesem Werk nimmt Busoni Überlegungen zu neuen Tonskalen, Sechsteltonsystemen und sogar erste Ahnungen der Möglichkeiten elektrisch erzeugter Klänge vorweg.
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	Ferruccio Busoni
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	Category:Busoni, Ferruccio - IMSLP
		Fantasia nach J.S. Bach, KiV 253 (Busoni, Ferruccio)
		Prelude and Etude in Arpeggios, KiV 297 (Busoni, Ferruccio)
		Transcription of 2 Toccatas from J.S. Bach (BWV 564, 565), KiV B 29 (Busoni, Ferruccio)
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