#busoni

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Historically important composer, pedagogue, theorist, essayist, and concert pianist Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924) dies in Berlin. From an early age, Busoni was an outstanding, if sometimes controversial, pianist. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory, and thereafter devoted himself to composing, teaching, and touring as a virtuoso concert pianist all across Europe and the United States. Busoni's academic and theoretical writings on music were highly influential in their day, and in them he covered not only aesthetic considerations but also explorations of microtonal harmony and other innovative technical topics. Busoni began composing early on (in a typical "late Romantic" style), but after 1907 -- when he published his "Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music" -- he developed a much more distinctive and progressive approach, which often flirted with atonality. His visits to America also led to a growing interest in North American indigenous tribal melodies, which was reflected in some of his later works. Although none of Busoni's original music has really remained in the core performance repertoire, it is a fascinating body of work which is well deserving of exploration by pianists who possess strong techniques. The "Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition" was founded in Busoni's honor in 1949, in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his death. It remains one of the most important international piano competitions in the world today. In addition -- and fittingly, given that today is also the anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) -- Busoni's virtuoso piano transcriptions of Bach's works continue to hold the concert stage. PICTURED: At atmospheric cabinet photograph of the middle-aged Busoni, shown looking up from a score in his library and casting a penetrating stare into the camera, which he has signed and inscribed to a female admirer in Vienna in 1908. (That admirer, Berta Flatau nee Engel [1889 - 1943], would later tragically perish in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland.)

#classical music #music history #composer #classical composer #classical studies #classical composers #clssical musician #classical musicians #classical history #Ferruccio Busoni #Busoni #historian of music #Cadenza #Ouverture #Sonata #Toccata #Concerto #Concert #musician #musicians #Ballade #Symphony #orchestra #Turandot #operatta #Doktor Faust #opera #aria #chest voice

[philaretey]

My talented, beautiful wife playing a Bach Busoni Paritia and my mother's memorial service.

#Memorial #Bach #Busoni

[mozart2006]

SWR Symphonieorchester 2023/24 - John Storgårds e Kirill Gerstein

Foto ©swr.de Per il settimo concerto della stagione in abbonamento alla Liederhalle, la SWR Symphonieorchester ha presentato Continue reading SWR Symphonieorchester 2023/24 – John Storgårds e Kirill Gerstein

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#busoni #chorwerk ruhr #critica #john storgårds #kirill gerstein #liederhalle #novecento #piano #sibelius #sinfonica #strumentale #stuttgart #swr symphonieorchester #zürcher sing-akademie

[myarchitectphil]

My talented, beautiful wife playing a Bach Busoni Partita at my mother's memorial service.

#Memorial #Bach #Busoni

[rolflovesclassicalmusic]

Concert review, ★★★★½, Alexander Lonquich @ KZO, Wetzikon ZH, 2023-02-22 (Klavierissimo Festival 2023 / Top Klassik Zürcher Oberland) — CPE Bach: Free Fantasy in F♯ minor, Wq.67, H.300; Schumann: Arabesque in C major, op.18; Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a; Schönberg: Klavierstück op.11/2; Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, 1ère Année, S.160 — 6.Vallée d'Obermann; Busoni: Adaptation of Klavierstück op.11/2 by Arnold Schönberg, BV B 97; Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze op.6; Chopin: Impromptu No.2 (encore)

#rolfsmblog #concertreview #concert #concert photography #klavierissimo #piano #festival #lonquich #cpebach #schumann #arabesque #liszt #bagatelle #pèlerinage #obermann #schönberg #klavierstück #busoni #davidsbündler #chopin #impromptu #concert review

[lepetitdragonvert]

A Trick of the Light - Love is Illusion

Artist : Marco Busoni

#marco busoni #mermaid #sirène #sirena

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 5: Rafaello Busoni (⅗)

Vignettes for Book the Second, Chapters 14-24

Here is the second half of Busoni's work for Book the Second - and it really is about half because there are the same total number of images again at 27 (including the above)!

1 / 5 || 2 / 5 || 3 / 5 || 4 / 5 || 5 / 5

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫

#A Tale of Two Cities #AToTC #dickens #charles dickens #literature #classic literature #victorian literature #vintage illustration #illustration #illustrators #Rafaello Busoni #1940s #my scans #okay so i didn't come back on tuesday but instead i wanted to surround tuesday with a post on either side #which i think is a fair way to catch up #but I didn't get to achieve that because I didn't finish the alt text yesterday :) #anyway though. another solid set of work! #god my april is so chaotic #the Idea was to have these queued :) ah well

[sivavakkiyar]

Ferruccio Busoni, Sketch Of A New Esthetic of Music, 1907

“Music was born free, & to win freedom is its destiny”

#ferruccio busoni #20th century music #music theory

[tuttocenere]

Felt like watching some Busoni Faust for once, medici is really laggy today, fortunately the same video is on YouTube too. Watching an unfamiliar German language opera with French subtitles is quite the brain exercise.

I do like this opera, I think it would be cool to see live. Unsurprisingly I'm a big fan of tenor Mephisto.

#busoni faust #dear diary

[opera-ghosts]

On May 11, 1917, the world premiere of the opera “Turandot” took place in the Zurich City Theater, today's Zurich Opera House.

The composer Ferruccio Busoni conducted his work himself. His second work “Arlecchino” was premiered on the same evening.

The postcard shows the City Theater in 1917.

#Turandot #opera #classical music #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #Ferruccio Busoni #Busoni #conductor #conducting #postcard #antique postcard #vintage postcard #classical musician #musician #diva #prima donna #maestro #chest voice #music #opera singer #classical singer #classical singing

[lesser-known-composers]

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) - Suite for Clarinet & String Quartet: I. Andantino ·

Consortium Classicum

#Ferruccio Busoni #clarinet quintet #Youtube

[mozart2006]

Hélène Grimaud a Stuttgart

Foto ©PRO MUSICA/Sören L. Schirmer Era da diverso tempo che non ascoltavo in concerto Hélène Grimaud. La cinquantaquattrenne pianista Continue reading Untitled

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#bach/busoni #beethoven #brahms #cameristica #critica #hélène grimaud #liederhalle #piano #strumentale #stuttgart

[briannabug]

Earth & sky by Marco Busoni

#Marco Busoni #artworks #uploads #greek mythology #landscape #oil painting #gaia #uranus #mythology #artworks ☆

[rolflovesclassicalmusic]

Concert review, ★★★★, Can Çakmur @ Druckerei Baden (Piano District), Baden AG, 2022-11-19 — Mozart: Sonata No.13 in B♭ major, K.333; Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D.845; Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S.529/2; Mitropoulos: Passacaglia, Preludio e Fuga; Busoni: Transcription of Bach's Chorale Prelude for Organ "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ", BWV 639 / BV B 27/5

#rolfsmblog #concertreview #concert #recital #pianorecital #piano #liszt #pianodistrict #mozart #sonata #pianosonata #schubert #mitropoulos #busoni #bach #transcription #cançakmur #chaconne #ciaccona #çakmur #druckereibaden #choraleprelude #brahms

[coquelicoq]

Et là-dessus, l’abbé salua l’étranger en homme qui désire faire comprendre qu’il ne serait pas fâché de se remettre au travail interrompu. (p. 845)

i'm pretty sure this is the energy i'm giving off at almost every moment but it never would have occurred to me to put it in these terms. "i wouldn't be mad to see the back of you fyi. anytime you want to get the fuck out of my hair i would not hold it against you. btw."

#fuckin' abbé busoni. love that little shithead #the count of monte cristo #my posts

[aschenblumen]

Johann Sebastian Bach, Adagio in A minor, BWV 564. Transcripción de Ferruccio Busoni.

#johann sebastian bach #adagio in a minor #bwv 564 #ferruccio busoni