User:Gerda Arendt/Busoni

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Gerda Arendt/Busoni
by Ferruccio Busoni
The pianist and composer c. 1895
Catalogue
  • BV 1 to 303 and appendix
  • Op. 1 to 55
Composed1873 (1873)–1924
  • Operas
  • Concertos
  • Orchestral music
  • Vocal music
  • Chamber music
  • Solo music for piano
  • Adaptations

Major works by Ferruccio Busoni, a composer of the late-Romantic period, appear in an overview of the very detailed complete list of his compositions. They are listed by the number in the catalogue Busoni-Verzeichnis (BV) which is roughly chronological. Other information are the title, key, year of composition, Opus number (Op.), genre and text authors.

History[edit]

Busoni composed music in many genres. A pianist himself, he wrote original compositions and adaptations for the instrument, piano concertos and concertante music for the instrument, often playing the premieres. He composed a Piano Concerto which takes 70 minutes to perform and incorporates in the last of five movements a men's chorus for text from the final scene of the verse drama Aladdin by Adam Oehlenschläger, a hymn to Allah.[1][2][3] He wrote many transcriptions and adaptations of the works of other composers, notably Johann Sebastian Bach, culminating in the Bach-Busoni Edition. His tutorial material for the piano appears collected in the work in ten volumes Klavierübung.[4][5]

Busoni wrote operas, concertos, choral music, chamber music and art songs. He assigned opus numbers to his works but not consistently, several numbers more than once. A comprehensive systematic catalogue of Busoni's works was prepared by Kindermann. It is presented as BV (Busoni-Verzeichnis, Busoni catalogue), sometimes also as KiV (Kindermann-Verzeichnis, Kindermann catalogue).

Table of compositions[edit]

The table is sortable by title, opus number, year of composition, genre and BV catalogue number. Numbers beginning with A refer to the appendix of the catalogue, numbers beginning with B to Busoni's adaptations and transcriptions. For some compositions, additional details are included, such as a translation of the title, the scoring (if not clear from the title or the genre), the key, and information on texts. All entries refer in the last column to the more detailed lists.

Compositions by Ferruccio Busoni
Title Translation Key Scoring Op. Year Genre Text BV
Ave Maria
 1 1877 (1877) vocal Ave Maria 67
Cinq Pièces
 Five Pieces 3 1877 (1877) piano 71
Concerto per piano-forte con accompagnamento di quartetto ad arco
 Concerto for Piano and String Quartet 17 1878 (1878) concerto 80
Suite
  • clarinet
  • piano
 10 1878 (1878) chamber 88
Suite
 G minor
  • clarinet
  • string quartet
 1878 (1878)? chamber 176
Stabat Mater
 55[a] 1879 (1879) vocal Stabat Mater 119
String Quartet (No. 1)
 C major 19 1880 (1880)–82 chamber 208
String Quartet (No. 2)
 D minor 26 1876 (1876) chamber 225
Konzertstück
 Concert Piece
  • piano
  • orchestra
 31a 1889 (1889)–90 concerto 236
Kultaselle
 Ten short variations on a Finnish Folk Song
  • cello
  • piano
 1889 (1889) chamber 237
Violin Concerto
 D major 35a 1897 (1897)/1904 concerto 243
Violin Sonata (No. 2)
 E minor 36a 1898 (1898)/1900 chamber 244
Eine Lustspielouvertüre
 Comedy Overture 38 1897 (1897)/1904 orchestral 245
Piano Concerto
 C major
  • piano
  • choir
  • orchestra
 39 1904 (1904) concerto by Oehlenschläger 247
Turandot Suite
 41 1904 (1904)–05 orchestral 248
Elegien
 Elegies 1907 (1907) piano 249
Berceuse élégiaque
 42 1909 (1909) orchestral 252a
Fantasia nach Johann Sebastian Bach
 Fantasia after J. S. Bach 1909 (1909) piano 253
An die Jugend
 1909 (1909) piano 254
Fantasia contrappuntistica
 1910 (1910) piano 256
Sonatina (No. 1)
 1910 (1910) piano 257
Die Brautwahl
 The Bridal Choice 1906 (1906)–1911 opera by Busoni 258
Indianische Fantasie
 Indian Fantasy
  • piano
  • orchestra
 44 1913 (1913)–14 concerto 264
Indianisches Tagebuch
 Indian Diary 1915 (1915) piano 267
Arlecchino
 Harlequin 50 1914 (1914)–1916 opera by Busoni 270
Turandot
 1916 (1916)–1917 opera by Busoni 273
"Es war einmal ein König"
 Mephistopheles' Song from Faust
  • baritone
  • piano
 49/2 1918 (1918) vocal by Goethe 278
Doktor Faust
 1916 (1916)–1923 opera by Busoni 303
Klavierübung
 1917 (1917)–1924 piano A 3
Transcription of Two Toccatas and Fugues by Bach, BWV 564 and BWV 565
 1900 (1900)[b] piano B 29
Transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations
 1914 (1914) piano B 35


Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Opus number in Busoni's initial sequence
  2. ^ publication year

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Piano Concerto, Op.39, BV 247 (Busoni, Ferruccio)". IMSLP. 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  2. ^ Clements, Andrew (17 November 2011). "Busoni: Piano Concerto – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  3. ^ Ross, Alex (9 January 2012). "Busoni's Piano Concerto / "The Monster Concerto"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  4. ^ Sitsky, Larry (2008). Busoni and the Piano. The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings (2 ed.). Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-158-6.
  5. ^ Kindermann, Jürgen (1980). Thematisch-chronologisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Ferruccio B. Busoni. Vol. 19. Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag. ISBN 3-7649-2033-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

Music scores[edit]

Busoni, Ferruccio

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