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Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.
Ferruccio Busoni was a pianist and composer who attained fame as a pianist of brilliance and intellectual power.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Italian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)

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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 roma

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio (Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto) Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.

Biography

Ferruccio Busoni was born in Empoli in Tuscany in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians. His father, Ferdinando, was a clarinetist and man-about-town. Though his mother, Anna, had a German surname (Weiss) she was an Italian from Trieste, and a pianist. They were often touring during his childhood, and he was brought up in Trieste for the most part.

Busoni was a child prodigy. He made his public debut on the piano with his parents, at the age of seven. A couple of years later he played some of his own compositions in Vienna where he heard Franz Liszt play, and met Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Anton Rubinstein.

Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz with Wilhelm Mayer (who used the pseudonym of W. A. Rémy and also taught Felix Weingartner) and was also helped by Wilhelm Kienzl, who enabled him to conduct a performance of his own co

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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