Busoni Speaks Truth
Ferruccio Busoni is a composer I am just now beginning to explore. Edgard Varése recalled his fascinating teacher:
"He deplored that his own keyboard instrument had conditioned our ears to accept only an infinitesimal part of the infinite graduations of sounds of nature. However, when I said that I was through with tonality, his quick response was : You are denying yourself a very beautiful thing."
Ferruccio Busoni is a composer I am just now beginning to explore. Edgard Varése recalled his fascinating teacher:
"He deplored that his own keyboard instrument had conditioned our ears to accept only an infinitesimal part of the infinite graduations of sounds of nature. However, when I said that I was through with tonality, his quick response was : You are denying yourself a very beautiful thing."
posted by PWS at 1:30 AM
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So far I've only heard his MASSIVE piano concerto. I plan on hearing his opera, Doktor Faust next.
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