Busoni as Pianist

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-58046-335-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 197 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

A translation of the only book that focuses solely on the pianistic aspect of Busoni's wide-ranging career.

Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minuteslong, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his day as an author and pedagogue and, most especially, as a pianist. Busoni's recordings of pieces by Chopin and Liszt -- and of his own arrangements of keyboard works by Bach and Beethoven -- are much prized and studied today by connoisseurs of piano playing. Yet even his most important biographers have cast only a cursory glance at the pianistic aspect of Busoni's fascinating career.
Grigory Kogan's book Busoni as Pianist (published in Russian in 1964, and here translated for the first time) was and remains the first and only study to concentrate exclusively on Busoni's contributions to the worldof the piano. Busoni as Pianist summarizes reviews of Busoni's playing and his own writings on the subject. It also closely analyzes the surviving piano roles and recordings, and examines Busoni's editions, arrangements, and pedagogical output. As such, it will be of interest to pianists, teachers and students of the piano, historians, and all who love piano music and the art of piano playing.

Grigory Kogan (1901-1979) was a leading Soviet pianist and music critic. A conservatory professor at the age of twenty-one, Kogan created the first-ever course in Russia dealing with the history and theory of pianism. Through his brilliant lectures, his concert performances, and his many books, articles, and reviews, Kogan influenced an entire generation of Soviet pianists.

Svetlana Belsky is a teacher and performer, and is coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kogan, Grigory

Weitere Mitwirkende

Belsky, Svetlana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Tasteninstrumente
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreward by Nina Svetlanova
Preface: Grigory Kogan: His Life and Times
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Busoni's childhood and youth, 1866-88
2. Finland and Moscow, 1889-94
3. Berlin: Busoni's emergence as a great pianist
4. Busoni's technique: Piano orchestration, tone production
5. Busoni's repertoire: An anti-romantic approach
6. Busoni's interpretation of Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin
7. Busoni's interpretations. Textural liberties.
8. Busoni's interpretations of Bach. Articulation.
9. Rhythm and dynamics
10. Busoni's recording of the Liszt's Rigoletto Paraphrase
11. Technical phrasing
12. Technical variants
13. Fingering, pedal
14. Compositions, transcriptions, editions, teaching, writings
15. Busoni's esthetics
16. Busoni's esthetics, continued
17. World War I. Operas.
18. Busoni's final years, 1918-24
Conclusion

Annotated Discography
Notes
Bibliography
Translator's Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Svetlana Belsky is a teacher and performer, and is coordinator of Piano Studies at the University of Chicago.