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Fantasia contrappuntistica

Fantasia contrappuntistica (BV 256) is a solo piano piece composed by Ferruccio Busoni in 1910. Busoni created a number of versions of the work, including several for solo piano and one for two pianos. It has been arranged for organ (by Wilhelm Middelschulte, dedicatee of the work, whom Busoni praised as "Meister des Kontrapunktes") and for orchestra (by Frederick Stock) under the composer's supervision.

Fantasia contrappuntistica

BV 256

1910 (1910)

Wilhelm Middelschulte, Richard Buhlig

1910 (1910): Leipzig

Breitkopf & Härtel

25 minutes

Solo piano

The work is in large part a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge. Conversely, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum appears to be a homage to Fantasia contrappuntistica.

Manuscripts[edit]

The manuscripts in Busoni's hand are in the Berlin State Library as part of the Busoni Archive.[2]

BV 255 Große Fuge

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[7]

(1985). Busoni the Composer. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-13149-2

Beaumont, Antony

(1933). Ferruccio Busoni: A Biography, London: Oxford University Press. (Reprint: London: Ernst Eulenberg, 1974) ISBN 0-903873-02-8

Dent, Edward J.

Kindermann, Jürgen (1980). Thematisch-chronologisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Ferruccio B. Busoni. Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, vol. 19. Regensburg: . ISBN 3-7649-2033-5

Gustav Bosse Verlag

Roberge, Marc-André (1991). Ferruccio Busoni: a bio-bibliography. New York: . ISBN 0-313-25587-3

Greenwood Press

Schnapp, Friedrich (1928). Katalog der im Nachlaß vorhandeden Musik-Manuskripte Ferruccio Busonis, 1873–1924. Typescript. , Busoni Archive. (Cited by Kindermann, 1980, p. 17; Beaumont, 1985, p. 355; Roberge, 1991, pp. xi, 143.)

Berlin State Library

(2008). Busoni and the Piano. The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings. (2nd ed.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-158-6 [First edition, Westport: Greenwood Press,1986. ISBN 0-313-23671-2]

Sitsky, Larry

: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

Fantasia Contrappuntistica

Analysis by Kenneth Derus

Busoni Worklist