Ferruccio Busoni was better known for his piano transcriptions of music by Bach than he was for his own music. In concert at the University of Georgia, pianist Andre Watts plays Busoni's arrangement ...

Anyone expecting a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete Goldberg Variations could have been forgiven for feeling like somebody who had turned up to the wrong wedding at Hong Kong City Hall ...

Arguably the greatest pianist of his time, the legacy of Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) is perpetuated through his popular piano transcriptions and futuristic musical thinking. Commemorating the ...

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We often hear about the transcriptions Ferrucio Busoni made of music by Bach. But Busoni occasionally turned his attention to music by composers other than Bach, composers like Georges Bizet. From a ...

Egon Petri (1881-1962) was a pianist and a pupil of Busoni. He was less known for his arranging than for his playing and teaching (pupils included John Ogden, pianist- comedian Victor Borge, and the ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...