List of compositions by Ferruccio Busoni

This article presents a complete catalog of original compositions by Ferruccio Busoni, including a large number of early works, most of which remain unpublished.

40 he began assigning opus numbers of unpublished youthful works to new compositions.

[3] However, since opus numbers are written on manuscripts, included on published scores, used for identification of compositions by many recordings, and included in the standard reference works by Dent (1933), Kindermann (1980), Beaumont (1985), and Sitsky (2008), they are given here as an aid in identification.

The user should be aware, however, that a particular opus number may refer to more than one item and says very little about the date of composition or publication.

[4][5][6] The BV numbers are based on the first comprehensive catalog of Busoni's unpublished as well as published works prepared by Jürgen Kindermann.

Titles are in the original language, except for instrumentation and generic terms, such as "string quartet."

The collection consists of 366 cataloged items, many of which were lost during the Second World War, and after the war were divided between Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, in West Berlin and the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Musikabteilung, in East Berlin.

The Busoni-Archive manuscript numbers provided by Sitsky are prefixed with the letters "SB", a procedure which has been adopted here as well.

This section lists additional original works not assigned numbers in the Kindermann catalog.

2 (in F minor) Comprises: 4 movements 1) Allegro Agitato 2) Andante Sostenuto 3) Scherzo - Trio 4) Allegro Vivace MS: SB53 (4 pages score) Title: 2º Quartetto composto da Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Ded: Al mio amatissimo padre (Ferdinando Busoni).

^ BV 45: Il Dolore: Romanza senza parole [Sorrow: Romance without words] (in A minor), for piano Tempo: Andante MS: SB40 (6 pages score) Ded: Alla Memoria dell' Illustrissimo Signor Barone Hermann de Todesco.

Lied ohne Worte für Klavier allein, componirt von dem 10jährigen Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni.

Ded: Zur Erinnerung an den Herrn Baron Hermann von Todesco.

^ BV 51 Ouverture (in E major), for (large) orchestra (unfinished) Tempi: Moderato - Allegro MS: SB58 (title page, 25 pages score) (fragment) Title: Ouverture per Grande Orchestra composta da Ferr.

Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone; timpani, tubular bells, harp; strings Pub: unpublished Arrangement: piano duet, see BV 128 Ref: Kindermann, pp.

7 Composta da Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Date: il 20 Maggio 1877 all' età di anni undici e 2 mesi in tempo sua malattia Note: This sonata was probably intended to be part of a set of at least 9 sonatas, never completed (see BV 57).

8 da Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Date: il 5 Luglio 1877 in Gmunden all' età di anni 11.

8 in E major, composed by Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni] Ded: All'Illustre Critico Sigr.

1, for voice and piano MS: unknown Comp: 1 October 1977 (set Note 1) Pub: Vienna: C. A. Spina and Hamburg: August Cranz, n.d. [1878 (Dent)], plate no.

C.24586, (5 pages) Title: Ave Maria per Canto accompagnamento dir Pianoforte, Op.

3, for piano Comprises: 1) Preludio: Andante 2) Minuetto - Trio 3) Gavotta - Trio 4) Etude: Allegretto con moto 5) Gigue: Allegro Comp: 1877 MS: unknown Pub: Leipzig: August Cranz, n.d. [1877 (Dent)], plate nos.

10, for clarinet and piano (Beaumont) Comprises: Andante con moto (in E minor) (4/4, 80 bars) (one movement only)

by Georg Meerwein Title: Andante con moto Full score: pp.

Jutta Theurich Recording: Wolf Harden, piano (Naxos 8572077)[135] Ref: Dent, p. 341; Kindermann.

Max Reger): 1) Schwermut [Melancholy] 2) Frohsinn [Gaiety], 3) Scherzino [Little Scherzo] Series II (ded.

Grigorii Kogan) 4) Frankfurt, New York, and London: C. F. Peters, 1982 Ref: Dent, p. 342; Kindermann, pp.

^ BV 274: Sonatina in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII für Klavier zu zwei Händen

Two hundred and fifty years laterthe story is taken up once morein the light-hearted play of the Brautwahl.The old man turns up once again:his activities expand in Berlin todayas maitre de financesprocurer and forger,as blustering monster－Busoni was simply implying a continuation of the ageless fairy-tale into modern times.

Unfortunately Wilhelm Guttmann, the baritone for whom the piece was written, viewed matters more prosaically and declared that the text was anti-Semitic.

Guttmann resolutley refused to sing the ballad, and it remains to this day unpublished and unperformed.