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Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Benvenuto

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Italian pianist, composer, and music critic. Much of his music was for the piano, but he also composed several operas including Doktor Faust , completed by Philipp Jarnach after Busoni's death. His work shows the influence of Liszt and his ballet score for Doktor Faust shows his debt to Bizet. Specimens of his style at its best are to be found in his later sonatinas, Sarabande und Cortège from Faust , and the monumental Fantasia contrappuntistica for piano. An apostle of Futurism, he encouraged the French composer Edgard Varèse. Busoni was born in Empoli, near Florence. He appeared as a pianist in public at the age of seven, and later studied at Graz and Leipzig, Germany. He taught at the Helsinki Conservatory, Finland, in 1889, in Moscow, Russia, in 1890 (where he married the Swede Gerda Sjöstrand), and in Boston, USA, 1891–94. He settled in Berlin in 1894, but travelled widely as a pianist and during World War I lived first in Bologna, Italy, as director of the Conservatory and then…
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Title page of Doktor Faust, by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Handwritten score of the 113 scales of Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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First page of the Turandot Suite, by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Handwritten letter from Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) to his wife
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First page of Fantasia contrappuntistica, by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) in Dresden in 1897
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Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) in Zurich in 1917
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Title page of Berceuse elegiaque, by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), orchestral work dedicated to his mother
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Autograph sheet music of Finnlandische Volksweisen (Finnish folk songs), by Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
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