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 ...

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 ...

Fazil Say is no doubt the most famous Turk in classical music. Of course, as Bill Buckley once said in another context, that’s like pointing out the tallest building in Wichita, Kan. Heretofore, Turks ...

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...