Busoni - Fantasia Contrappuntistica, BV 256
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- Composer: Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 - 27 July 1924)
Work Title: Fantasia contrappuntistica, BV 256
Performer: Wolf Harden (piano)
0:01 - 1. Preludio corale
8:13 - 2. Fuga I
12:08 - 3. Fuga II
14:17 - 4. Fuga III (on B-A-C-H)
20:12 - 5. Intermezzo
21:18 - 6. Variazione I
22:34 - 7. Variazione II
23:34 - 8. Variazione III
24:36 - 9. Cadenza
26:06 - 10. Fuga IV
27:52 - 11. Corale
28:47 - 12. Stretta
Ferruccio Busoni (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation meant that he met and had close relations with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary figures of his time, and he was sought-after both as a keyboard instructor and a teacher of composition.
Busoni was born in Empoli, just south of Florence; he was the son of professional musicians. Initially trained by his father, he later studied at the Vienna Conservatory and then with Wilhelm Mayer and Carl Reinecke. In the ensuing years, 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; they 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.
Busoni was an outstanding (if sometimes controversial) pianist from an early age. He began composing in his early years in a late romantic style, but after 1907, when he published his Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, he developed a more individual style, often with elements of atonality. His visits to America led to interest in North American indigenous tribal melodies which were reflected in some of his works. His compositions include works for piano, including a monumental Piano Concerto, and transcriptions of the works of others, notably Johann Sebastian Bach which appeared in the Bach-Busoni Edition. His other compositions include chamber music, vocal and orchestral works, and also operas, one of which, Doktor Faust, was left unfinished at the time of his death. Busoni died in Berlin at the age of 58.
Fantasia contrappuntistica (BV 256) is a solo piano piece composed by Ferruccio Busoni in 1910. Busoni created a number of versions of the work, including several for solo piano and one for two pianos. It has been arranged for organ and for orchestra since the composer's death.
The work is in large part a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge. Conversely, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum appears to be a homage to Fantasia contrappuntistica. Busoni dedicated the work to Wilhelm Middelschulte, "Meister des Kontrapunktes".
The composer Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) also wrote a Fantasia Contrappuntistica ("Homage to Bach", Op.24) for piano, which won the first prize at the Bolzano Piano Competition (1956), premiered by Maurizio Pollini.
The first ten pages of the introductory "Preludio corale" are nearly identical to the Third Elegy with a few small cuts and alterations, including the removal of all German expression marks or their translation into Italian. In the third fugue, there is a returning melody composed of four notes, which are B♭, A, C, and B♮. These four notes spell Bach in German, where the H is the B♮, and are commonly known as the B-A-C-H motif.
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0:01 - 1. Preludio corale
8:13 - 2. Fuga I
12:08 - 3. Fuga II
14:17 - 4. Fuga III (on B-A-C-H)
20:12 - 5. Intermezzo
21:18 - 6. Variazione I
22:34 - 7. Variazione II
23:34 - 8. Variazione III
24:36 - 9. Cadenza
26:06 - 10. Fuga IV
27:52 - 11. Corale
28:47 - 12. Stretta
This is absolutely incredible.
"Fantasia Contrappuntistica" by Ferruccio Busoni (1910) - This piano work is an elaborate homage to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, incorporating chromaticism and other unconventional techniques to create a dense and intricate texture.
This piece is incredible! I've listened to it 3 times today and I can't get enough of it!
I just sight read it. Its pretty intense but boring for most people
The art of fugue Evolution.
What a work of art.
3:28 Rien que ce passage suffit à faire de Busoni un grand compositeur.
Great upload. I think it's key to point out that this is more than an homage to the Art of Fugue. This is his stamp on 'completing' the unfinished contrapunctus (14). Which was then rounded out into its own concert piece by the composer.
And also, the theme is in d minor, just like the art of fugue.
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The trill at 19:37 is physically impossible unless you have tentacles for fingers.
Now that you mentioned it, my left hand aches just looking at that bar.
I think that the only way to do that more and less convincingly is like a tremolo of low G# and low A together with fingers 5 and 4 and the upper G# and A together with the thumb, as melted as possible
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i would just cheat by playing the g# octave then do a tremolo between low g# and high a
@@Sujkhgfrwqqnvf One can slide from a G# to an A with the thumb; maybe Busoni meant for that to be done as many times as possible in a short period?
@@klop4228 I think that wouldnt be satisfactory because a lot of glissandi with the thumb would sound like a lot of consecutive acciacaturas g#-a.
Intensely cerebral and beautiful at the same time. Busoni was the greatest of his time. I would expect no less from someone who spent so much time transcribing Bach's organ works for piano, and providing worthy editions of his inventions and other keyboard works. Clearly his admiration of Bach made him who he was as an artist and a composer.
Бузони очень нравится. От Бузони многое взял Сорабджи , и это чувствуется .
I don’t know why I have such a hard time enjoying this piece; nonetheless, it’s truly fascinating music. Sounds like an amalgamation of flash Liszt, late Liszt, and Big Bach.
Amazing work and gorgeous pianist.
The stretta gives me an eargasm...
Busoni, maybe one of the most underrated composers?
Great upload!!
Thanks!
Спасибо,очень красивое произведение. Thank you. Wonderful piece and performance.
Fascinating work, thank you for sharing.
The stretta most certainly influenced the second theme of Shostakovich's last prelude and fugue
It's the second subject from contrapunctus 8
1:16 It seems that the C# low pedal in quintuplets section from Introito from Opus Clavicembalisticum is based in this passage.
joyri you are beautiful but being in this den makes you even more beautiful 😍
Sorabji
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The Stretta is an incredible elaboration of the 3 Theme of Contrapunctus 11
2:18 I love it
I don't understand this piece. Might have to come back to it later.
Amazing!!!
Great
Nice
19:00
Holy frik
Someone needs to record all of the extant fuges from The Art of the Fugue and then at Contrapunctus XIV transition straight to this ...
2:24, 4:24, 5:12, 14:18, 16:08, 19:47
So what?
12:51
19:33
Is this a joke? HOW?!?! 😳🤯
I used to listen to Busoni quite a bit. Then I discovered Godowsky.
Why compare Busoni to Godowsky?
@@galanis38 Both are famous for their transcriptions and paraphrases of other composers works.
@@galanis38 they were definite rivals. Harold Schonberg's book on the Great Pianists does a good job of talking about their rivalry within their concert programming. So maybe in our time not to compare them about who is better, it is at least interest to see their stylistic difference as they were contemporaries.
Busoni complimented Godowsky quite often, though I'm not sure how Godowsky felt,
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