Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Music Training

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awarded the Rubinstein Prize for the Konzertstück op.310 , but he gave up the offer of a professorship at Moscow in order to pursue his career as a pianist in Boston and New York . He never felt much affinity with Russian music , and this may have influenced his decision . Berlin became Busoni's home in 1894 ; he remained there for the rest of his life , except for a period in Switzerland during World War I. He held courses at Weimar in 1901-2 with the aim of gaining support for Liszt's music , of which he was a conscientious advocate , and from 1902 he gave orchestral concerts of modern music ( which he avoided in his solo recitals ) in Berlin . These concerts included the world premières of works by Bartók , Delius , Sibelius and Busoni himself , and the German premières of pieces by Debussy , Fauré , Franck ind d'Indy , generally conducted by Busoni or the com posers concerned . In 1907 Busoni published his highly original and forward - looking Entwurf einer neuen Asthetik der Tonkunst ( inscribed to Rilke ) , which provoked a controversy with Pfitzner . Meanwhile his interest in music for the stage was leading to practical dforts . After completing an incidental score for Gozzi's Turandot , which he later expanded into an opera , he made a name for himself in 1912 with Die Brautwahl , after E. T. A. Hoffmann . Arlecchino was composed in 114-16 , and also in 1914 he began work on the abretto of his last stage work , Doktor Faust . In his last ears Busoni held master classes at the Academy of Irts in Berlin ; he gave his last public concert in 1922 . Doktor Faust had to be completed posthumously by his trend Philipp Jarnach , who arranged the first perform ance at Dresden in 1925 . Busoni , Ferruccio ( Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto ) ( ) Empoli , nr . Florence , 1 April 1866 ; d Berlin , 27 July 1924 ) . German - Italian composer and pianist . 1. Life . 2. Concert works . 3. Operas . 1. LIFE . His father was the virtuoso clarinette Ferdinando Busoni and his mother , Anna Weiss - Busoni . whose father was German , was a pianist . Ferruccio's unusual gifts were recognized early ; he received initial instruction from his parents and gave his first concert in Trieste before he was eight . Shortly thereafter he was heard by Anton Rubinstein , who continued to follow his artistic development with interest . He acquired a fluent command of German as well as of Italian , and gave bis first performance outside Italy in Vienna . His first ap pearances in German - speaking territory , where he was later to choose to make his home , were well received by both public and press . Hanslick , in a detailed article for the Viennese newspaper Neue freie Presse , drew atten tion to the great pianistic ability of the ten - year - old boy , whose playing and compositions revealed " Do precocious sentimentality or studied eccentricity , but a naive pleasure in music ' ; nor did Busoni's art contain the ' sweet poison of the Romantics ' , by which Hansiick doubtless meant Wagner . In 1876 the Busoni family settled in Graz , what Ferruccio was taught by Wilhelm Mayer , at that times prominent composer under the pseudonym of ' A Remy ' . At the age of 12 Busoni conducted his om at mater , which , like the six - part unaccompanie with which he concluded his studies with Mayer , s lost . Other works of these years , the two settings of the Ave Maria opp.1 and 2 and the Cing pièces op.3 for piano , were even published contemporaneously . Busca dedicated to his teacher his Preludio e fuga op.7 fa organ , a prelude on a ground and double fugue on : chorale . At the age of 15 he was elected to the Rat Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna , where the first per formance of his Leopardi oratorio Il sabato del village took place in 1883. After that Busoni moved to the north . In Vienna , the scene of his first major successes * the piano , he became a friend of Karl Goldmark , from whose opera Merlin he made a piano fantasy as well preparing the vocal score . He also made the acquat tance of Brahms and dedicated to him his Etudes opp and 17 . Busoni moved to Leipzig in 1886 in order , Brahrns's recommendation , to come into contact Reinecke . While there he also met Tchaikovsky ; Grid Sinding , Mahler and Delius ; and the second of two string quartets , in D minor op.26 , was lars written in Leipzig . By now a celebrated pianist , in 18 he brought out an arrangement of the Fugue in D * BWV532 , the first of his subsequently very controvers editions and transcriptions of Bach . Riemana o mended him to the Helsinki Conservatory , where ? got to know Sibelius and Järnefelt , and in 1890. ! Moscow he married Gerda Sjöstrand , the daughter Swedish sculptor . Of their two sons , Raffaello prove talented painter . In the year of his marriage Buson Groves tickonen Bithio F F. Schnapp , ed , Busoni : Briefe au seine Fran Erg Trani : 1838 Revi 1975 . E. J Dent london Ferucio Buson 1933 R.1974