Piano
SKU:
BR.EB-4323
Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Edited by Egon Petri and
F. Busoni. Arranged by
Ferruccio Busoni. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
Baroque period. Score. 76
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 4323.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-4323).
ISBN 9790004162774. 9
x 12
inches.
Busoni's
Bach Advanced SchoolIn
October 1909, Breitkopf &
Hartel succeeded in
winning Ferruccio Busoni
for the edition of Johann
Sebastian Bach's piano
works. Busoni had studied
the music of Bach more
intensively than almost
any other artist of his
time had. As a pianist,
arranger, theorist and
pedagogue, Busoni was
instrumental in bringing
Bach out of the 19th
century and into the 20th
century. That same year,
Busoni and two
collaborators, Bruno
Mugellini and Egon Petri,
began work on the
instructive edition,
which was to comprise 25
volumes. The first
volumes were published in
the spring of 1916, and
in May 1923, the Bach
Advanced School project
was finally completed.
This also marked the end
of Busoni's
thirty-year-long creative
involvement with Bach's
works, the impact of
which still reaches far
beyond the Bach-Busoni
formula.All alterations
and additions pursue the
educational intent of
affording the student
insight into the
mechanism of the
composition. Moreover,
they illustrate and
supplement the views
presented only in a
sketchy manner in the
introductions. In several
cases, it takes the sum
of the comments on the
various pieces to
constitute the
all-encompassing opinion
on one and the same
question. (Ferruccio
Busoni).
ferruccio-busoni
