Ferruccio Busoni

Dante Michaelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, music teacher and conductor.

Busoni's editions

Busoni also edited of music by other composers. The best known of these is his edition of the complete Bach solo keyboard works, which he edited with the assistance of his students Egon Petri and Bruno Mugellini. He adds tempo markings, articulation and phrase markings, dynamics and metronome markings to the original Bach, as well as extensive performance suggestions. In the Goldberg Variations, for example, he suggests cutting eight of the variations for a "concert performance", as well as substantially rewriting many sections. The edition remains controversial, but has recently been reprinted.

Related Topics:
Bach - Egon Petri - Bruno Mugellini - Goldberg Variations

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On a smaller scale, Busoni edited works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mozart. Liszt, Schoenberg and Schumann. 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.

Related Topics:
Beethoven - Brahms - Chopin - Mozart - Liszt - Schoenberg - Schumann - La Campanella - Ignaz Friedman - Josef Lhevinne

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