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Busoni

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[byoo-soh-nee, boo-zaw-nee] / bjuˈsoʊ 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 ● Jun. 17, 2025

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 ● Oct. 26, 2023

In this and many other ways, Busoni became part of the San Francisco zeitgeist, beats and hippies very much included.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

As composer, virtuoso pianist, theorist, highly opinionated futurist and pedagogue, Busoni exerted a little-acknowledged, though crucial, component of the cultural identity of San Francisco and beyond, Los Angeles very much included.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

I use the Klindworth, the Busoni and sometimes the Bischoff edition, never Kroll, never Czerny.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker

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