FERRUCCIO BUSONI

1866-1924

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BUSONIO

2024

COMPLETECATALOG

PUBLISHERFROM THE OUTSET
When at age 19 Busoni came to Leipzig in 1885, Breitkopf & Härtel was successful in thecompetition to sign up the young composer. The publishing house subsequently published Busoni’s
first works, justifiably viewing itself to this very day as the “Busoni publisher.” Breitkopf & Härtel
also capitalized on Busoni’s extraordinary abilities as a music researcher and arranger,
for example, as co-editor of the complete editions, begun in 1907, of Franz Liszt’s works
and of J. S. Bach’s piano works.
The more than 1500 documents in the publishing-house correspondence with Ferruccio Busoni
published in the two-volume edition of letters Ferruccio Busoni im Briefwechsel mit seinem Verlag..
Breitkopf & Ha rtel , edited by Eva Hanau, Wiesbaden, 2012, bear witness to a partnership lastingnearly 40 years (for further information see page 18).

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BUSONIO

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COMPLETECATALOG

Contents
Compositions for Piano
Compositions for Wind Instruments
Compositions for Strings
Compositions for Voice + Choir
Compositions for Chamber Music Ensembles
Compositions for Orchestra

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Following Busoni’s Traces:
Stations of His Life, Teaching Activities, Tours

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Dramatic Works
Study Scores
Busoni as an Arranger
Busoni as an Editor
Piano Reductions of Other Works
Exchange of Letters with His Publisher

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COMPOSITIONSFOR PIANOPIANO FOR 2 HANDS
Three Album Leaves K 289
EB 5193 12,90 €Fantasia contrappuntistica K 256

Sonatinas 1–6:

Choral variations on“Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe” followed bya Quadrupel fugue on a fragment
by J. S. Bach

Sonatina K 257

EB 3491

EB 8149

Edition for 2 Pianos
EB 5196

Arrangement for 2 Harps, for Piano/Celestaand 2 String Orchestras
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Edition
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Busonireduced Version for Harp, Piano/Celesta
and Strings
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To the Youthfor Piano
K 254
Heft I | Volume I
EB 4944

Sonatina seconda K 259
Sonatina ad usum infantis K 268
EB 8160

Sonatina in diem nativitatis Christi
MCMXVII K 274
EB 5071

Sonatina brevis K 280

in Signo Joannis Sebastianii Magni
EB 5093

An die Jugend
für Klavier

EB 8146

Improvisation K 271
on J. S. Bach‘s Choral Song
“Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele”
BWV 517for 2 Pianos

Chamber Fantasia
on “Carmen” K 284[Sonatina 6]
EB 5186

EB 4941

To the Youth K 254
Volume 1: Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio

Toccata K 287
Indian Diary K 267

EB 4944

Book No. 1 – Four Piano Studies

Volume 2: Preludio, Fuga e Fuga figurata –Study after J. S. Bach‘s Well-Tempered Clavier

EB 4837

Volume 3: Giga, Bolero e Variazioni –Study after Mozart

Cadenzas for W. A. Mozart‘s
Piano Concertos K 10

EB 8177

EB 4945

EB 4946

Volume 4: Introduzione, Capriccio ed Epilogo
EB 4947

Edition
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Volume 1: KV 271, 453, 459
EB 8577

Busoni

Volume 2: KV 466, 467
EB 8578

Andantinofrom the Piano Concerto No. 9 K 84

Zwei Kontrapunkt-Studiennach J. S. Bach

Volume 3: KV 482, 488, 491, 503

Two Counterpoint Studies

EB 8579

according to J. S. Bachby W. A. Mozart KV 271
EB 3987

EB 4940

Piano Exercise in Five Parts
Part 1: 6 Piano Studies and Preludes

Elegien K 249, 252
7 New Piano Pieces
EB 5214EB 5066

Part 2: 3 Piano Studies and Preludes

Two Counterpoint Studies K 40, 41

Part 3: Lo Staccato

EB 4940

EB 5067

according to J. S. Bach

EB 5068

Six Etudes op. 16 K 203
EB 5079

Fantasia

Part 4: 8 Etudes by J. Cramer
EB 5224

Part 5: Variations,
Perpetuum mobile, Scales
EB 5225

after J. S. Bach K 253
EB 3054

Sonata in F minor op. 20a K 204
EB 7444

Five Short Pieces to Cultivate
Polyphonic Playing K 296
EB 8113

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HAND
SPAN

COMPOSITIONSFOR PIANOPIANO FOR 2 HANDS

Edition
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BusoniBusoni

Variationen und Fuge c-moll

Zehn Variationenüber ein Präludium von Chopinüber das Präludium op. 28 Nr. 20 von Frédéric Chopin
für Klavier

Ten Variations
on a Prelude by Chopin

Variations and Fugue in C minor
on the Prelude op. 28 No. 20 by Frédéric Chopin
for Piano

für Klavier | for Piano

op. 22 K 213

K 213aEB 3841

EB 5230

Variations and Fugue op. 22 K 213
on the Prelude in C minor op. 28/20
by Frédéric Chopin
EB 3841

Ten Variations on a Prelude
by Chopin K 213a

Part of Busoni’s
pianistic virtuosity wasdue to the physiologicalpeculiarity of his hands’
extraordinary span.
Musicologists of his time,
attempting to discover
the secret of his success,had X-rays made ofBusoni’s hands.

from the Piano Exercise, Part V
EB 5230

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PIANO VIRTUOSOBusoni’s pianistic abilities were greatly appreciatedfrom childhood. His father already brought the nine-yearold to Vienna to present him to the world of music asa “child prodigy.”
Hereupon developed a highly successful virtuoso
career offering him a busy concert schedule and teachingpositions at important international conservatories.
He nevertheless increasingly suffered from his
pianistic fame, feeling that he was being celebrated forsomething appearing to him secondary.

Busoni’s X-rayed hands
from: Rudolf M. Breithaupt
Die natürliche Klaviertechnik
Leipzig 1905

© Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PKCOMPOSITIONTEACHERPIANO FOR 4 HANDS
Fugue on the folksong“O du lieber Augustin”
K 226

In 1921 at the Berlin Academy of Arts, Busoni took over directing the composition master class consisting of a total of five composition students.*“The youths come on Mondays and Thursdays; I can say goodbye to themafter 1–1½ hours,” Busoni wrote his wife Gerda in July 1921. He taught
his students* in his apartment studio, contributing to the exclusivity andlegendary fame of this circle.

for Piano for 4 Hands
EB 8147

Photo f.l.t.r. Kurt Weill, Walther Geiser,
Ferruccio Busoni, Luc Balmer, Wladimir Vogel*EDITIONS
FOR 2 PIANOSDuettino Concertante K 88
based on the Finalefrom W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto
in F major KV 459

Rondo concertante K 87

for 2 Pianos

EB 4773
Breitkopf & Härtel
Edition Breitkopf

EB 5190

based on the Finale from W. A. Mozart’s
KV 482for Piano and Orchestra
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Busoni– INDIANISCHE FANTASIE
für Klavier und Orchester

PIANO +
ORCHESTRA / CHOIR– INDIAN FANTASIA
for Piano and Orchestra

PEDAGOGICALEDITION

op. 44 K 264

Klavierauszug
Piano Reduction

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zusammengestellt und eingeleitet voncompiled and with an introduction by
Franzpeter Goebels

EB 2861
Breitkopf & Härtel
Edition Breitkopf

Indian Fantasia op. 44 K 264
for Piano and Orchestra
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The
New

Übungen und Studien für Klavier
Exercises and Studies for the Piano

EB 4773– CONCERTO
für Klavier und Orchester mit Männerchor
for Piano and Orchestra with Male Choirop. 39Band I | Volume IÜbungen und Studien für Klavier
Exercises and Studies for the Piano

Concert Piece in D major
op. 31a K 236

Edition Breitkopf 6948

Concertino Part I
Klavierauszug
Piano Reduction

Franzpeter Goebels

The
New

Piano reduction for 2 Pianos

Busonizusammengestellt und eingeleitet voncompiled and with an introduction by

for Piano and Orchestra

Edition for 2 Pianos

HIRE MATERIALEB 5470

Band II | Volume II

Edition Breitkopf 6949

Concerto op. 39 K 247
for Piano and Orchestra with Male Choir
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Piano vocal score

Romanza e Scherzoso in F minor
op. 54 K 290

EB 2861

Concertino Part II

Study score

for Piano and Orchestra

PB 5104

HIRE MATERIALThe New Busoni
Exercises and Studies for the Piano
Volume 1: Exercises
EB 6948

Volume 2: Exercises and Studies
EB 6949

PRACTICE
RULES
Busoni to his wife Gerda on 20 June 1898)

Busoni with pupil: The lesson (1903) © Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK

Rule 1 : Practice the passage with the most difficult fingering;when you have mastered it, then play with the easiest.
Rule 3 : Always combine technical practice with performance

study: the difficulty often lies not in the notes but in the
dynamic shading prescribed.
Rule 4 : Never waste strength by letting your temperament
carry you away; getting into the passage are smudges thatcan never again be washed out.
Rule 7: Bach is the base of piano playing, Liszt the apex. Those

two will make a Beethoven possible for you.
Rule 8 : Assume from the outset that everything is possible on
the piano, even where for you it seems or really is impossible.
Rule 12 : Don’t let a day go by without touching your piano.

COMPOSITIONSFOR WIND INSTRUMENTS
Album Leaf in E minor K 272

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for Flute and Piano
EB 4943

Edition for Viola and Piano
EB 8036

Ferruccio Busoni was considered especiallygifted at the piano. It is probably due to thistalent that the piano part often departs frombeing merely a functional accompaniment,
to becoming an equal musical partnerwith the flute duo.

EB 5140
Breitkopf & Härtel
Edition Breitkopf

Edition for Violoncello and Piano
EB 8037

Arrangement for Flute and Orchestra
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BusoniDivertimento in B flat major
op. 52 K 285– CONCERTINO
für Klarinette und kleines Orchester
B-dur

for Flute und Orchestra

Duo in E minor op. 43 K 156
for 2 Flutes and Piano
Score and partsfor Clarinet and Small Orchestra
in B ﬂat major

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op. 48

Piano reduction by Kurt Weill
EB 5205

Klavierauszug
Piano Reduction

EB 9358

The Duo for 2 Flutes and Piano waswritten during Ferruccio Busoni’s periodof compositional instruction with
Wilhelm Mayer in Graz, who commented
below the music text: “The invention is nice,the work superb” – thus, praising thecontrapuntal skills of the then fourteenyear-old. The carefully written-out flute parts
suggest, however, that this piece was notintended as just a practice piece:
It was also to be performed. In his youth

Elegy in E flat major K 286
for Clarinet and Piano
EB 5188

Concertino in B flat major
op. 48 K 267
for Clarinet and Small Orchestra
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Fairy Tale K 123
for Clarinet and Piano
EB 8713

Piano reduction for Clarinet and Piano
EB 5140

COMPOSITIONSFOR STRINGS
Variations on a
Minnesinger Lied op. 22 K 112

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for Violin and Piano
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Busoni
Zweite Sonate
für Violine und Klavier
e-mollSecond Sonata
for Violin and Pianoin E minor
op. 36a K 244
EB 5189

Second Sonata in E minor
op. 36a K 244
for Violin and Piano
EB 5189

Violin Concerto in D major
op. 35a K 243

EB 8686

Piano reduction for Violin and Piano

Written in 1879, Busoni’s Variations werelong considered as lost – including by
Jürgen Kindermann in his Busoni Work
Catalog. Busoni himself later gave
the Opus number 22 to another work.
The autograph, however, is alive and wellpreserved in Cracow’s Biblioteka
Jagiellonska.

Study score

EB 5210

PB 5270

Three Pieces K 123, 196, 237
for Violoncello and Piano
EB 8712In his Minnesinger Variations, the young
composer amply displays his considerable
talents. Virtuosos can expect someextravagant harmonic and pianistic surprises,
all neatly tucked away in the score next to
all manner of borrowings – after all,Busoni was only 13! – from illustrious
models.

© Musical Estate Ferruccio Busoni A 275, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK

BUSONI, THE COMPOSER
While enjoying legendary fame as a piano virtuoso,
Busoni was largely denied this as a composer.
Of his approximately 300 compositions, more than half
written by 1900 are now considered early and youthfulworks that still seem very much indebted to tradition.
In his view, he found his own way as composer withthe second Violin Sonata op. 36a EB 5189 ,a key work from 1898.
Busoni increasingly turned to modernism
during the first decade of the new century. The startof his most progressive and experimental period..
was marked by his Entwurf einer neuen A sthetik der
Tonkunst [Draft of a New Aesthetic of Musical Art], firstpublished in 1907, a new aesthetic of the art of soundcalling for a revolutionary liberating of music fromentrenched design norms. Piano compositions such as
the Elegies EB 5214 , the Sonatina seconda EB 8149 ,and ultimately the most ambitious work as per
J. S. Bach, the Fantasia contrappuntistica EB 3491 ,are an expression of this new path.

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COMPOSITIONSFOR VOICE + CHOIR
VOICE

CHOIR

Altoum’s Prayer op. 49/1 K 277

Five Goethe Songs

Missa K 169

for Baritone and Ochestra
solo: Bar – 2.1.1cor ang.0.2 – timp –str(without Vl)

for Baritone und Orchestra

for Mixed Chorus a cappella

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Rondo arlecchinesco op. 46 K 266
Harlequin’s Round Dancefor Tenor and Orchestra
solo: T – picc.1.1.2.2 – 3.2.3.0 –timp.perc.(2) – str

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No. 1: Lied des Brander“Es war eine Ratt’ im Kellernest” K 299

ChB 5230

No. 2: Lied des Mephistopheles“Es war einmal ein König” K 278
No. 3: Lied des Unmuts“Keinen Reimer wird man finden” K 281a
No. 4: Schlechter Trost“Mitternachts weint’ und schluchzt’ ich” K 298

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No. 5: Zigeunerlied“Im Nebelgeriesel, im tiefen Schnee” K 295

Study score

Edition for Baritone and Piano

PB 2655

Choral score

EB 6461COMPOSITIONSFOR CHAMBER MUSICENSEMBLES
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Concerto in D minor op. 17 K 80
for Piano and String Quartet

Andante with Variations
and Scherzo op. 18a K 184

Score

for Violin, Violoncello and Piano

PB 5160

Edition
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Busoni
Streichquartett Nr. 2
d-mollString Quartet No. 2
in D minor
op. 26
K 225
EB 5557

String Quartet No. 2 in D minor
op. 26 K 225
Set of parts
EB 5557

Orchestral parts: OB 5160

KM 2274

Edition for Piano Quintet
KM 2191

Suite in G minor K 176

With our edition of the Concerto op. 17,
this early work by Busoni is accessible for the
first time. Busoni wrote this quite extensive
work when he was 12 years old.

for Clarinet and String Quartet

Despite the early period of composition, which
has left its traces in some schematizations,the extraordinary imaginative power of thecomposer is already evident here, which isreflected in the individual shaping of the musicalform. It is unclear whether Busoni intended achamber music work or rather thought of anorchestral performance. Also the musical text
does not allow a clear conclusion.
Our edition is therefore available both asa piano quintet KM 2191 and as orchestralmaterial PB/OB 5160 .

KM 2267

COMPOSITIONSFOR ORCHESTRA
Busoni appraised the composition of the Berceuse e´le´giaque as a
successful realization of his own aesthetic demands formulated in
the Neue Ästhetik. Premiered by Gustav Mahler in New York in 1911
and dedicated to the memory of Busoni’s deceased mother, this short,atmospherically dense, elegiac lullaby belongs to the Sechs Elegien
cycle composed for reduced orchestral scoring within the ten-year period(1909–1919). All six elegies ( Berceuse e´le´giaque , Nocturne Symphonique ,Rondo Arlecchinesco , Gesang vom Reigen der Geister , Sarabande
and Corte`ge ) are related to dramatic works, some of them neverfully elaborated.
Although in his aesthetic draft Busoni clearly rejects program music,
he does at times rather approach it in his compositions, as, for example,
in the works based on fairy-tale dramas. Included here is the monumental
Concerto op. 39 of 1904, which, lasting 70 to 80 minutes, is one of thelongest and most pianistically demanding of piano concertos.
The five-movement work culminates in a choral finale on the closing
verses of Adam Oehlenschläger’s fairytale play Aladdin .

Rondo arleccinesco op. 46 K 266(more Information: page 8)

Sarabande and Cortège
op. 51 K 282
Two Studies to “Doktor Faust”
3(picc).2(cor ang).cor ang.2.B-clar.2.dble bsn –4.3.3.1 – timp.perc – 2hp – cel – str
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Symphonic Suite op. 25 K 201
3(picc).3(cor ang).3(B-clar).3 – 4.3.3.1 –timp.perc(2) – str
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Symphonic Tone Poem op. 32a3(picc).2.cor ang.3(Bb-clar).3(dble bsn) –4.3.3(Bb-tbne).1 – perc – hp – str
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Another orchestral work with a dramatic reference is the eight-movement
Turandot-Suite op. 41 (1905), the result of Busoni’s preoccupation with
Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte Turandot .

Edition
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BusoniTanzwalzer

Berceuse élégiaqueop. 42 K 252a

Concertante Suite from W. A.
Mozart‘s Opera “Idomeneo” K 85

Des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarge
seiner Mutter

for Orchestra
2.2.2.2 – 2.2.3.0 – timp – str

3.1.2.B-clar.0 – 4.0.0.0 – perc. – hp –cel. – str

HIRE MATERIAL

Study score

Lustspiel-Ouvertüre op. 38 K 245

HIRE MATERIALPB 5126
HIRE MATERIAL Arrangement: Erwin Stein

picc.2.2.2.2 – 4.2.0.0 – timp.perc. – str
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Study score

Die Brautwahl
op. 45 K 261

PB 4720

Suite for Orchestra

Nocturne Symphonique op. 43 K 262

3(3picc).3(cor ang).3(B-clar).3(dble bsn) –4.3.3.1 – timp.perc(3) – hp – cel(carillon withkeyboard) – str3(picc).1.cor ang.2.B-clar.2.dble bsn – 3.0.0.0 –timp.perc – hp – cel – str

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Gesang vom Reigen der Geister
op. 47 K 269
Indian Diary, Book No. 2
1.1.1.1 – 0.1.1.0 – timp – str
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Suite for Orchestra No. 2
op. 34a K 242

für Klavier
for Piano
op. 53K 288

EB 5197

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Tanzwalzer op. 53 K 288
2(picc).2.2.2 – 4.2.3.0 – timp.perc.(2) – str
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Edition for Piano
EB 5197

Study score
PB 2656

Turandot Suite op. 41 K 248
for Women’s Chorus and Orchestra
Choir: SA(ad lib) – 2(2picc).3(cor ang).3(B-clar).
3(dble bsn) – 4.4.3.1 – timp.perc(3) – 2hp – str
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Verzweiflung und Ergebung K 248a“Armoured Suite”

Additionally Composed Set for Turandot Suite
op. 41 K 248

picc.2.3(cor ang).3(B-clar).3(dble bsn) – 4.3.3.1– timp.perc(2) – str

picc.3.3.3.3(dble bsn) – 4.4.3.1 – timp.perc –str / stage music: trp.perc(2)HIRE MATERIAL

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Following Busoni s
TracesAutograph, Musical Estate Ferruccio Busoni 4 (1169) © Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK

10 Touring

America
Boston, Chicago,
Detroit, Cincinnati
1904

New York, Chicago,
Kansas City, New Orleans,
Atlanta, Columbus,
Pittsburgh(( PA), Des Moines,
Colorado Springs, Washington,
Denver, New York
191 0

Montreal(( Canada ), Boston,
New York, Chicago, Des Moines,
Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Seattle, Chicago, Cincinnati
191 1

1 91 5

New York, Chicago

Boston 1891
New York 1892

Concert Venues
Selection: Aachen, Basel, Bergamo, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest

Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Heidelberg, London, Lyon, Milan
Manchester, Mannheim, Moscow, Paris, Riga, St. Petersburg
Strasbourg, Utrecht, Venice, Warsaw, Vienna, Zurich

Helsinki 1888

Moscow 1890

Weimar 1900--1901

Zurich 1915 --1920

Berlin 1894--1915 + 1920 --1924

Leipzig 1885

Graz 1879
Bologna 1913

Triest 1873
Empoli 1866...
Stations of His Life...
Teaching Activities

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DRAMATIC
WORKS
Busoni presented himself to the music world as an opera composer only rather late. Inspired between 1906..
and 1911 by E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story Die Serapionsbru der , he composed the libretto and music for a new opera titled
Die Brautwahl that was premiered in 1912. Its lack of success later led him to turn the work’s material into afive-movement orchestral suite ( Die Brautwahl op. 45).
The one-act theatrical capriccio Arlecchino originated during his Swiss exile. Its special feature is the assignmentof the hero to a speaking role. The Arlecchino premiere took place in Zurich in May 1917, together with another ofBusoni’s short operas, Turandot , whose German libretto he quickly set to music using incidental music written earlier.
It was nevertheless the opera Doktor Faust that Busoni considered his main (stage) work, after entertaining theidea of setting the Faust subject to music for about 30 years. He did not base his work on the Goethean drama,
but on various other models, such as the 17th and 18th century puppet theater and the Christopher Marlowe’s Faust
drama. Though Busoni began composing the work in 1916, he was unable to finish it. Using his compositionalsketches, his pupil Philipp Jarnach completed the opera that was finally premiered in Dresden in May 1925,
barely a year after Busoni’s death.

Arlecchino op. 50 K 270
A Theatrical Caprice in One Act
Solos: Sp MezT2BarB –2(picc).2(cor ang).2(Bkl).2(dble bsn) –3.2.3.0 – timp.perc.(2) – Cel – str –Stage music: 2trp.timp.perc
Text: Ferruccio Busoni

from his own works. With these stylisticmeans, Busoni followed Hoffmann’s “serapiontic”
principle and came closer to his idea of atimeless “world music” without borders.

HIRE MATERIAL

Piano vocal score

EB 9434
Breitkopf & Härtel
Edition Breitkopf

EB 9433 NEW

Die Brautwahl op. 45 K 258

12Musical-phantastic Comedy
in 3 Acts with a Postlude
Solos: MezTTTBarBarB – choir: SATTBB –3(3picc)3(cor ang).3(B-clar).3(dble bsn) –4.3.3.1 – timp.perc – hp – cel.org – str –Stage music:1.2.2.2 – 2.2.corn.0.0 –timp.perc(2) – pno – db – low bell
Text: Ferruccio Busoni

EB 9432 NEW

In Busoni’s musical evolution, this work marks animportant phase of radical change after works
inspired by Brahms and Verdi. The composer’s
compositional style became increasingly
revolutionary between the sketch of theshort score (1908) and the completion of theorchestral score (1911). Busoni took the greatest
care in preparing the definitive form of the work.
He asserted that there was “invention in everybar”, and assigned an important role to the useof music from “other sources”: the Hebrew marchfrom Rossini’s “Mosè”, for example, or a German
dance by Mozart, military music, AmericanIndian pentatonic music, Gregorian plainchant,
melodies from the synagogue and even quotes

Breitkopf & Härtel
Edition Breitkopf

Busoni– TURANDOTK 273

Busoni

Klavierauszug
Piano Vocal Score– DOKTOR FAUST
Dichtung für Musik in zwei Vorspielen,
einem Zwischenspiel und drei Hauptbildern
Poem for Music in Two Preludes, an Intermezzo
and Three Principal Scenes
K 303

Klavierauszug
Piano vocal score

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Piano vocal score

EB 9429

Doktor Faust K 303
Opera (Poetry for Music) in 3 Parts –Completed Text
Solos: S.9T.5Bar.7B – choir: SSAATTBB –3(2pic).2(cor ang).2.Bkl.2.dble bsn –5.3.3.1 – timp.perc.(4) - 2hp - cel.org – str –Stage music: 0.2.0.0 – 6.3.3.0 – timp.perc(2) –2hp - cel – vl.va.vc
Text: Ferruccio Busoni
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Arrangement: Philipp Jarnach
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Arrangement: Antony Beaumont
Piano vocal score of both versions
EB 9434 NEW

Turandot K 273
A Chinese Fable in 2 Acts
after Carlo Gozzi
Solos: 2S.2Mez.6T.Bar.7B – choir: SSAATB –2(picc).2(cor ang).2(B-clar).2(dble bsn) –4.2.3.0 – timp.perc(3) – hp – cel – str –Stage music: trp.2tbne.perc
Text: Ferruccio Busoni
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including Italian vocal lyrics(Oriana Previtali, 1961)
Piano vocal score
EB 9429 NEW

GRAPHICS& DESIGN
Busoni was a passionate art collector
with a special interest in graphics anddesign. He often embellished musicscores, texts, and letters with drawings.
Wanting to choose the artists for the titlepage designs of his own scoreshimself, he considered the illustration
as a part of and really completing
the idea of his piece.

Art drafts for Turandot
for the Deutsches Theater Berlin
Ernst Stern 1911
Watercolors on paper
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Art library

STUDY
SCORES
Berceuse élégiaque op. 42
K 252aPB 5126

Concerto op. 39 K 247
PB 5104

Lustspiel-Ouvertüre op. 38
K 245
PB 4720

Rondo arlecchinesco op. 46
K 266
PB 2655

Tanzwalzer op. 53 K 288
PB 2656

Violin Concerto in D major
op. 35a K 243
PB 5270

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BUSONIAS AN ARRANGERJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Chaconne from the Partita II
in D minor BWV 1004
for Piano
EB 2334

Edition
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Bach-Busoni

Orgel-Choralvorspiele

Toccata C-dur

für Klavier

für Klavier

Chorale Preludes for Organ

Toccata in C majorfor Pianofor Piano

Heft I | Volume I

BWV 564

EB 2459

EB 1371

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Bach-BUsoni
Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge
für Klavier

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
for Piano
BWV 903
Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
Arrangement for violoncello and piano
EB 4838

Choral Preludes for Organ
BWV 667, 645, 659, 734, 639,
617, 637, 705, 615, 665

Toccata in C major BWV 564
for Piano
EB 1371

Volume 1
EB 2459

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
BWV 903
for Violoncello and Piano

Volume 2
EB 2460

Toccata in D minor BWV 565
for Piano
EB 1372

Prelude and Fugue in D major
BWV 532

EB 4838

for Piano
EB 3355

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EB 2956
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Prelude and Fugue in E flat major
BWV 552
for Piano
EB 8038

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Missa Solemnis in D major op. 123
Benedictus

Solos: ob.vl.va.vc – 2.0.2.2 – 2.2.3.0 – timp –str(va and vc separated)
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Bach-Busoni– KONZERT
für Klavier und Orchester
d-moll– CONCERTO
for Piano and Orchestra
in D minor
BWV 1052

Klavierauszug
Piano Reduction

Concerto in D minor BWV 1052

MODERN TECHNOLOGY“Ferruccio never used a typewriter and made at most 2–3 phone callsin his life. He, the notorious futurist, was mostly old-fashioned. Of modern
inventions, only the automobile pleased him.”for Piano and Orchestra
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for 2 Pianos
EB 2956

Gerda Busoni in her„Erinnerungen an Ferruccio Busoni“[Memories of Ferruccio Busoni]
Berlin, 1958

NUMERICAL
FACTSUNIVERSALARTIST FIGURE
Alongside his pianistic career, Busoni was also active
as a piano pedagogue, conductor, editor, music arranger,
and author of libretti and numerous treatises on music
aesthetics and other topics. His artistic activity was focused,however, on composing, in which he wanted to “catch holdof a corner of the new art of sound and possibly sew aborder on it himself.”

years of partnershipwith Breitkopf & Härtel

40

Busoni works

300 known

books comprising

5000 Busoni’s library in Berlin
documents included

9000 in his estate

Busoni in a letter to hiswife Gerda on 8 November 1908

FRANZ LISZTWOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Overture to the opera“The Magic Flute” KV 621
for 2 Pianos K 93
EB 5241

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Liszt

Liszt-Busoni

Fantasie und Fuge

Sechs Etüden nach Paganiniüber den Choral„Ad nos, ad salutarem undam“

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für Klavier

Six Etudes after Paganini

Fantasy and Fugue

for Piano

based on the Chorale“Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”

Nr. 1 „Tremolo“

für Klavier | for Piano
EB 3863

EB 5238

Symphony in D major KV 202(186b)
for Piano K 78
EB 823

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Fantasy and Fugue
based on the Chorale “Ad nos,ad salutarem undam”
for Piano K 59
EB 3863

6 Etudes after Paganini
for Piano

1. Tremolo K 75
EB 5238

2. Andantino Capriccioso K 70
EB 4958

3. La Campanella K 68

Love Dreams
Three Notturnos
for Piano
EB 8138

EB 4839

4. Arpeggio K 74
EB 5206

5. La Chasse K 76

ROBERT SCHUMANN

EB 5239

Evening Song after op. 85 No. 12

6. Theme with Variations K 67

for Clarinet and String Quartet

EB 4360

KM 2275

BUSONIAS AN EDITORJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Volume 3: Preludes BWV 924-930,
933-942, 999, Fughetta BWV 961, Duets
BWV 802-805
EB 4303

Volume 4: Inventions for Two Parts
BWV 772-786
EB 4304

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BachKlavierwerke | Piano WorksBusoni-Ausgabe | Busoni Edition
Band 1 | Volume 1
Das Wohltemperierte Klavier – Erster TeilHeft 1: BWV 846–853

The Well-Tempered Clavier – First Part
Book 1: BWV 846–853

EB 6860

Volume 5: Inventions for Three Parts
BWV 787-801
EB 4305

Instructional edition“All alterations and additions pursue theeducational intent of affording the student
insight into the mechanism of the composition.
Moreover, they illustrate and supplement theviews presented only in a sketchy manner in
the introductions. In several cases, it takes thesum of the comments on the various pieces
to constitute the all-encompassing opinion on
one and the same question.”(Ferruccio Busoni)

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EB 6860

Volume 1: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 1 / Volume II: BWV 854-861
EB 6861

Volume 1: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 1 / Volume III: BWV 862-869

EB 4324

Volume 25: Sonatas BWV 965-967, Concerto
e Fuga BWV 909, Capriccio BWV 993, Menuets
BWV 841-843, Fugue BWV 951a
EB 4325

EB 4306

Volume 7: English Suites Nos. 1-3 BWV 806-808
EB 4307

Volume 8: English Suites Nos. 4-6 BWV 809-811
EB 4308

Volume 9: Partitas Nos. 1-3 BWV 825-827

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Volume 10: Partitas Nos. 4-6 BWV 828-830

6 Ecossaises WoO 83

EB 4310

Volume 11: Concertos after Different
Composers Nos. 1-8 BWV 972-979

for Piano
EB 2550

EB 4311

Volume 12: Concertos after Different
Composers Nos. 9-16 BWV 980-987
EB 4312

Volume 13: Italian Concerto in F major
BWV 971, Overture in the French Style (Partita)
in B minor BWV 831
EB 4313

Volume 14: Multi-Movement Execution Pieces
BWV 903, 906, 968, 992, 998
EB 4314

Volume 1: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 1 / Volume I: BWV 846-853

EB 4323

Volume 24: Suites BWV 818 a, 819, 1006a /Sonatas BWV 963, 964

Volume 6: French Suites BWV 812-817

EB 4309

Piano Works in 25 Volumes

Volume 23: Suites BWV 820, 821, 823, 824,
996, 997

Volume 15: Aria with 30 Alterations(Goldberg-Variations) BWV 988
EB 4315

Volume 16: Fantasia and Fugue
BWV 905, Andante BWV 969, Scherzo BWV 844,
Sarabande BWV 990, Aria BWV 989
EB 4316FRANZ LISZTFantasia on 2 Themes from W. A.
Mozart’s “Le nozze de Figaro”
KV 492for Piano
EB 3830

Grandes études de Paganini
for Piano

Volume 17: Toccatas BWV 910-913

EB 484

Volume 18: Toccatas BWV 914-916 /Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV 904

Dance of Death (Danse macabre)

Volume 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 2 / Volume I: BWV 870-876

Volume 19: Preludes and Fugues BWV 894,
895, 897, 923, 951, App. III 177

for Piano and Orchestra
Solo: Klav – Picc.2.2.2.2 – 2.2.3.1 –Pk.Schl (3) – Str / 20‘
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Volume 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 2 / Volume II: BWV 877-882

Volume 20: Preludes and Fughettas
BWV 899-902 / Fugues BWV 950, 954, 955

Volume 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 2 / Volume III: BWV 883-888

Volume 21: Fugue in A major BWV 896 /Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV 944 /Fugues BWV 945-949, 952, 953, App. III 180

EB 6862

Volume 1: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 1 / Volume IV – Supplement to Part 1
EB 6863

EB 8276

EB 8277

EB 8278

Volume 2: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Part 2 / Volume IV: BWV 889-893
EB 8279

EB 4317

EB 4318

EB 4319

EB 4320

EB 4321

Volume 22: Fantasias BWV 917-922 / Fugues
BWV 956-959 / Fugue (Fugato) in E minor
BWV 962
EB 4322

Réminiscences de Don Juan
Concert Fantasy on Themes from Mozart’s“Don Giovanni”
for Piano
EB 4960

PIANO REDUCTIONSOF OTHER WORKSWOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Fantasia for Barrel Organ in F minor
KV 608

BUSONI -- THE NETWORKER

Edition for 2 Pianos

As a young piano virtuoso and teacher
at Helsinki, Moscow, and Boston conservatories, Busoni had already succeeded in building up an important
network of artistic personalities andpatrons of modernism. He maintained
contacts both at a distance as a tireless letter writer and locally in Berlin,
his adopted home, where he quicklyrose to become an institution in thecity’s cultural life.

EB 5220

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mozart-Busoni
ROBERT SCHUMANN

Fantasie für eine Orgelwalze
f-mollFantasia for Barrel Organ

Concert Allegro with Introductionin D minor op. 134
Piano vocal score for 2 Pianos
EB 832

in F minor
Ausgabe für 2 Klaviere | Edition for 2 Pianos

EB 5220

VIKTORIALUISEPLATZ 1 1© Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PKBusoni‘s lastapartment in Berlin
was located on
the fifth floor of thebuilding at ViktoriaLuise-Platz 11.
A private elevator
led directly down toa bar on the groundfloor, where he enjoyeda glass of wine.

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EXCHANGE OF LETTERS
WITH HIS PUBLISHER
Band II

BusoniBreitkopf
Briefwechsel

Ferruccio Busoni and His Publisher
in an Exchange of Letters

Ferruccio Busoni

Editor: Eva Hanau

im Briefwechsel
mit seinem Verlag
Breitkopf & Härtel

2 Books in Slipcase
BV 318Band II · 1915–1924

Band I

Ferruccio Busoni

ensiver Dialog

erten Ferruccio Busoni
opf & Härtel miteinander.
ehr als 1.500 Mitteilungen –nisten und Pianisten,istreichen Autor, der seine
Beharrlichkeit verfolgt.
rlag, der fast das gesamte
Diskurs ist manchmal so
Briefe gewechselt werden.
ftlichen Partnerschaft, dieeundschaftliche Züge
bis zur Entfremdung zu
erdegang von Busonis Arbeiten,, über sein Musikverständnis
und zeitgenössischen
reizvoll sind beiläufige
rtner zum damaligen Musikchen Tagesgeschehen.

BusoniBreitkopf
Briefwechsel

im Briefwechsel
mit seinem Verlag
Breitkopf & Härtel

Breitkopf

Ferruccio Busoni corresponded with the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel for over
40 years, and practically the entire correspondence with more than 1,500 missives has
survived. They depict the composer, arranger, editor and pianist as a witty writer, whoreports with great eloquence on his many interests. His epistolary partner, in this case,is the publisher who printed nearly all of Busoni’s works. The dialogue is often so intensethat up to 15 letters per month are exchanged. The hesitant beginning evolved into
something like a friendship that gradually cooled and practically led to an estrangement
at the end. While the correspondence allows us many insights into the genesis of Busoni’s
works, it is also punctuated with remarks about the situation of contemporary music
and publishing, as well as with comments on the political developments of the day.

Band I · 1883–1914

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Greeting cardby Breitkopf & Härtel
for Busoni’s 50th birthday
on 1 April 1916

Busoni to
Breitkopf & Härtel
from New Yorkon 6 February 1911

A Journey Through

300
Years
– of Publishing-House History –BV 485 (German)

Edited and commented by Thomas Frenzel– 504 pages | about 620 illustrations –– Chronicle of the firm’s important events –– Essays on selected topics, historical visual and textual documents, anecdotes and all sorts of curiosities –– High-quality linen covers with dust jacket –20 2 05
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BEETHOVEN

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BUSONIO

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