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…