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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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Ferruccio Busoni
“Only those who look forward look happy.”
(F. Busoni, Doktor Faust, 1924-5)
Born in Empoli on April 1, 1866, into a family of musicians, Busoni spent his childhood in Trieste, studying piano under the guidance of his mother Anna Weiss. In 1875, his father Ferdinand made the decision to move to Vienna in order to allow his son to study at that city’s prestigious conservatory. The experience, which was rather negative from a pedagogical point of view but crucial to the discovery of new musical worlds, convinced the family to settle in Graz, where Busoni studied composition with W.A. Remy from 1878 to 1881. During a long concert tour with his parents in the winter of 1879, the twelve-year-old Busoni made a stop in Bolzano.
In a concert at the Palazzo Mercantile on January 31, 1879, Busoni began with Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata, showing great virtuosity: “Benvenuto played Beethoven by heart, without a score on the music stand, with deep musical sensitivity, with a sureness of technique that would astound anyone who is knowledgeable about music,” according to a local critic of the day, who was also amazed at Busoni’s skill at improvising upon themes suggested by the audience.
At the age of 20, Busoni decided to shake off the heavy hand of his father’s
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