Composition and Publication Details
- 1) Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio
- •Composed: June 1909 (Beaumont)
- •Manuscript: Busoni Archive No. 264
- •Title: Preludietto Fughetta
- •3 separate pages, written on one side only, unpaginated
- •Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright 1909, cat. no. Z. 4755, (11 pages)
- •Dedication: Josef Turczyński
- •Duration: 5 minutes (Beaumont)
- 2) Preludio, Fuga e Fuga figurata
- •Composed: July 1909
- •Manuscript: Busoni Archive No. 240
- •Title: Fuga figurata. (nach dem Prael. + Fuga aus dem W. Cl. v. J. S. Bach)
- •4 pages (1 notated, 2 blank, 1 notated)
- •Date: "3. Juli 1909 F. Busoni" (at the end of the composition)
- •Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright, cat. no. Z. 4756, (11 pages)
- •Dedication: Louis Theodor Grünberg
- •Duration: 4 minutes (Beaumont)
- 3) Giga, Bolero e Variazione
- •Composed: July 1909 (B.)
- •Manuscript: Busoni Archive No. 240 (attachment)
- •Title: Variazione (Gigue – Bolero e Variazione) (d'après Mozart)
- •1 page with only 6 measures
- •Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright, cat. no. Z. 4757, (11 pages)
- •Dedication: Leo Sirota
- •Duration: 4 minutes (Beaumont)
- 4) Introduzione e Capriccio (Paganinesco) & Epilogo
- •Composed: August 1909 (Beaumont)
- •Manuscript: unknown
- •Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright 1909, cat. no. Z. 4781, (13 pages)
- •Dedication: Louis Closson; Emile R. Blanchet (Epilogo)
- •Duration: 7 minutes (Beaumont)
- •Note: Four of the dedicatees (Turczyński, Gruenberg, Sirota, Closson) were master class pupils of Busoni in Vienna, Jul 1908 (Beaumont, 1987, p. 91), while Blanchet had been a pupil at a master class in Weimar, Jul-Sep, 1899 (Dent).
- •Later Publications:
- 1) Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d., cat. nos. E.B. 4944-4947.
- 2) Milan: Carisch & Jänichen, n.d.
- 3) No. 2: In Bach-Busoni Edition, Volume IV, 1916.
- 4) No. 4 (without Epilogo): In Klavierübung, Book 10, 1925.
- •Ref: Dent, pp. 125, 224; Beaumont, pp. 91, 148-157, 368; Sitsky, pp. 65-66, 206-208, 264-266, 289-290, 373, 374; Kindermann, p. 242; Roberge, p. 34.
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