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 | | Busoni gave his final public performance in 1922 and withdrew from his wide circle of friends and admirers. | | | As Busoni's own compositions begin to appear more frequently, his reputation as a creator of some of the most ingenious and original music of his time increases. | | | Although much of the concert going public is acquainted with the name Busoni as a strange and unexplained hyphenation after Bach (his ingenious and fascinating transcriptions), he is less often thought of as one of the greatest composers and perhaps the most influential mentor of the early twentieth century. |
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| Â | Serebella: Arts, Music, Composition, Composers, B, Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto |
| | Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Musical biography noting background, parentage, education, noted compositions, work as conductor, and examining the various conflicts in his mind that normed his later works. | | | Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924) Brief biography and portrait with summary of his piano music and Naxos discography. | | | Serebella: Arts, Music, Composition, Composers, B, Busoni, Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto |
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http://www.serebella.com/directory/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Busoni,%20Ferruccio%20Dante%20Michelangiolo%20Benvenuto/
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| | Busoni had his doubts about the directions the latter musicians were taking but engaged in a lengthy series of letters with Schoenberg, discussing his theories and assessing his piano pieces. | | | In 1890 Busoni's Konzertstück for piano and orchestra took top prize in Anton Rubinstein's first international competition in the amount of 5,000 francs. | | | There he began to have idyllic memories of a visit to Berlin, and in 1894 he settled there with his family, his second son Raffaello (later a noted artist) being born there the next spring. |
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| | Busoni developed his love for drama, writing the incidental music to Grozzi's Turandot in 1907 (?1911). | | | In 1907 Busoni's famous treastie 'Sketch of a New Aesthetic in Music' was written. | | | This aspect of Busoni's career is the most controversial, as he was heavily criticized for making piano arrangements of the organ pieces. |
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http://home.thezone.net/~roderick/composers/busoni/b_bio.htm
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| Â | ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network |
| | Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni wasn’t actually born with a hyphen preceding his name, but he has come down in musical history far more famously as the consummate arranger of Bach for the modern keyboard than for any of his own original compositions. | | | Busoni’s treatments of the Baroque master transcend any sort of simple piano transcription, being instead newly composed pieces which exhibit extremely thoughtful architecture, grandness of scale, and deeply emotional content. | | | Busoni also shares something of a life experience with Evgeny Kissin, once a touted prodigy but now, at the advanced age of 30, a fully mature artist of the highest caliber. |
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http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=1372
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| | Ferruccio Busoni, Francesco Cilea, Erik Satie, Enrique Granados, Arturo Toscanini, Scott Joplin, Henry Wood (the Proms), | | | Dali Da Vinci Donald Friend Michelangelo Van Gogh Others | | | Sub Pages ( Some contain further sub pages) |
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| Â | On-This-Day.com - April 1 |
| | 1866 - Composer Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni was born. |
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| | July 27, 1921 Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66 | | | July 27, 1924 Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58 | | | July 27, 1924 Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies |
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| Â | Today in History July 27 |
| | 1924 Jul 27, Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni (58), composer, died. |
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| | Anyway - we are not all some kind of a new Busoni, who - according to Percy Grainger - never had to feel his way on the keyboard. | | | Ferruccio Benvenuto Dante Michelangelo (no less!) Busoni's hands. | | | I think he said: " Playing the piano is the easiest thing in the world - it is just a matter of having the right finger on the right key at the right moment"! |
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| Â | Today in History ~ July 27 |
| | 1924 - Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58 |
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http://twotrees.www.50megs.com/attic/history/07/27.html
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| Â | ABC Classic FM Music Details: Saturday 1 April 2000 |
| | Busoni Concerto for piano and string quartet, Op 17 - Carlo Grante, p; I Pomeriggi Musicali/Marco Zuccarini. | | | A program for the 1 April birthdays of Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873) and Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni (1866) |
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http://www.abc.net.au/classic/daily/stories/s631386.htm
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| | saint & church father; bishop of Milan _339-397 Ameche, Alan Dante (the Horse) US football player; fullback for Baltimore Colts 1955-1960 _1933-- Ameche, Don (orig. |
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| | ( 4/01/1866 - 7/27/1924) BUSONI, Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto |
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| | , Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto (4/01/1866 – 7/27/1924) |
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