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Busoni

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[byoo-soh-nee, boo-zaw-nee] / byuˈsoʊ ni, buˈzɔ ni /

noun

  1. Ferruccio (Benvenuto) 1866–1924, Italian composer and pianist.


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He made his public performing debut at Graz in 1948, aged 17, and won the prestigious Concorso Busoni prize in Italy the following year.

From BBC

A Busoni aficionado, Levit brings tautness without rigidity to tame the sprawling, potentially meandering, Bach-loving “Fantasia Contrappuntistica,” before closing with Busoni’s “Nuit de Noël,” another chromatic fantasia, gently snowy.

From New York Times

In it, Busoni looks back to the 19th century for inspiration and ahead to the modernist promise of the 20th.

From Los Angeles Times

Busoni’s favorite pupil, the lesser-known and far stranger American pianist Richard Buhlig, settled in Los Angeles in the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times

Buhlig, who was born in Chicago, studied with Busoni in Berlin and taught in New York before moving to L.A., had an even bigger influence.

From Los Angeles Times