Ferruccio Busoni works

Compositions
by Ferruccio Busoni
The composer c. 1895
Catalogue	BV 1 to 303 and appendix Op. 1 to 55
Genre	Operas Concertos Orchestral music Vocal music Chamber music Solo music for piano Adaptations
Composed	1873–1924

Major works by Ferruccio Busoni, a composer of the late-Romantic period, appear in an overview of the very detailed complete list of his compositions. They are listed by the number in the catalogue Busoni-Verzeichnis (BV) which is roughly chronological. Other information are the title, key, year of composition, Opus number (Op.), genre and text authors.

History

Busoni composed music in many genres. A pianist himself, he wrote original compositions and adaptations for the instrument, piano concertos and concertante music for the instrument, often playing the premieres. He composed a Piano Concerto which takes 70 minutes to perform and incorporates in the last of five movements a men's chorus for text from the final scene of the verse drama Aladdin by Adam Oehlenschläger, a hymn to Allah.^[1][2][3] He wrote many transcriptions and adaptations of the works of other composers, notably Johann Sebastian Bach, culminating in the Bach-Busoni Edition. His tutorial material for the piano appears collected in the work in ten volumes Klavierübung.^[4][5]

Busoni wrote operas, concertos, choral music, chamber music and art songs. He assigned opus numbers to his works but not consistently, several numbers more than once. A comprehensive systematic catalogue of Busoni's works was prepared by Kindermann. It is presented as BV (Busoni-Verzeichnis, Busoni catalogue), sometimes also as KiV (Kindermann-Verzeichnis, Kindermann catalogue).

Table of compositions

The table is sortable by title, opus, year of composition, genre and BV catalogue number. Numbers beginning with A refer to the appendix of the catalogue, numbers beginning with B to Busoni's adaptations and transcriptions. For some compositions, additional details are included, such as a translation of the title, the scoring (if not clear from the title or the genre), the key, and information on texts. All entries refer in the last column to the more detailed lists.

Compositions by Ferruccio Busoni

Title	Translation	Key	Scoring	Op.	Year	Genre	Text	BV
Ave Maria				1	1877	4 vocal	Ave Maria	67
Cinq Pièces	Five Pieces			3	1877	6 piano		71
Concerto per piano-forte con accompagnamento di quartetto ad arco	Concerto for Piano and String Quartet			17	1878	2 concerto		80
Suite			clarinet piano	10	1878	2 chamber		88
Suite		G minor	clarinet string quartet		1878?	2 chamber		176
Stabat Mater				55[lower-alpha 1]	1879	4 vocal	Stabat Mater	119
String Quartet (No. 1)		C major		19	1880–82	5 chamber		208
String Quartet (No. 2)		D minor		26	1876	5 chamber		225
Konzertstück	Concert Piece		piano orchestra	31a	1889–90	2 concerto		236
Kultaselle	Ten short variations on a Finnish Folk Song		cello piano		1889	5 chamber		237
Violin Concerto		D major		35a	1897/1904	2 concerto		243
Violin Sonata (No. 2)		E minor		36a	1898/1900	5 chamber		244
Eine Lustspielouvertüre	Comedy Overture			38	1897/1904	3 orchestral		245
Piano Concerto		C major	piano choir orchestra	39	1904	2 concerto	by Oehlenschläger	247
Turandot Suite				41	1904–05	3 orchestral		248
Elegien	Elegies				1907	6 piano		249
Berceuse élégiaque				42	1909	3 orchestral		252a
Fantasia nach Johann Sebastian Bach	Fantasia after J. S. Bach				1909	6 piano		253
An die Jugend					1909	6 piano		254
Fantasia contrappuntistica					1910	6 piano		256
Sonatina (No. 1)					1910	6 piano		257
Die Brautwahl	The Bridal Choice				1906–1911	1 opera	by Busoni	258
Indianische Fantasie	Indian Fantasy		piano orchestra	44	1913–14	2 concerto		264
Indianisches Tagebuch	Indian Diary				1915	6 piano		267
Arlecchino	Harlequin			50	1914–1916	1 opera	by Busoni	270
Turandot					1916–1917	1 opera	by Busoni	273
"Es war einmal ein König"	Mephistopheles' Song from Faust		baritone piano	49/2	1918	4 vocal	by Goethe	278
Doktor Faust					1916–1923	1 opera	by Busoni	303
Klavierübung					1917–1924	6 piano		A 3
Transcription of Two Toccatas and Fugues by Bach, BWV 564 and BWV 565					1900[lower-alpha 2]	6 piano		B 29
Transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations					1914	6 piano		B 35

Notes

1. Opus number in Busoni's initial sequence
2. publication year

References

1. "Piano Concerto, Op.39, BV 247 (Busoni, Ferruccio)". IMSLP. 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
2. Clements, Andrew (17 November 2011). "Busoni: Piano Concerto – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
3. Ross, Alex (9 January 2012). "Busoni's Piano Concerto / "The Monster Concerto"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
4. Sitsky, Larry (2008). Busoni and the Piano. The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings. (2 ed.). Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-158-6.
5. Kindermann, Jürgen (1980). Thematisch-chronologisches Verzeichnis der Werke von Ferruccio B. Busoni. Studien zur Musikgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts 19 (Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag). ISBN 3-7649-2033-5.

Music scores

• Free scores by Ferruccio Busoni at the International Music Score Library Project