Today we celebrate the anniversary of the death of Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni, who died on July 27th, 1924. Busoni is frequently considered an enigma, a composer whose work largely consists of transcriptions conceived in what is perceived today as an ‘old-fashioned’ style. But the historical importance of the pianist and composer is…
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Improvisation on a Bach Chorale for Two Pianos by Ferruccio Busoni
Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni (1886 – 1924) was a fine pianist, composer, conductor, writer, editor and educator. His compositions were largely neglected after his death until around the 1980s. A master piano teacher, Busoni was regarded as an intellectual; a philosopher who was accustomed to thinking outside the box. Amongst his large compositional output, the most fabled pieces are the gigantic Piano Concerto (1904) and the…