COMPOSER

Ferruccio Busoni

1866 - 1924

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Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary figures of his time, and he was a sought-after keyboard instructor and a teacher of composition. From an early age, Busoni was an outstanding, if sometimes controversial, pianist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferruccio Busoni has received more than 566,532 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ferruccio Busoni is the 159th most popular composer (up from 163rd in 2019), the 769th most popular biography from Italy (up from 781st in 2019) and the 31st most popular Italian Composer.

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian pianist and composer. He is most famous for his piano transcriptions of Bach's works.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 159 out of 1,451. Before him are Pierre Boulez, Michel Legrand, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vincenzo Galilei, Michael Haydn, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are Komitas, Siegfried Wagner, Giovanni Paisiello, Max Reger, Bohuslav Martinů, and Vittorio Monti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 16. Before him are Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Agnelli, Aby Warburg, Hans von Seeckt, Aleksandr Ulyanov, and Charles Nicolle. After him are Jacinto Benavente, Beatrix Potter, Lev Shestov, Anne Sullivan, Ramsay MacDonald, and Nathan Söderblom. Among people deceased in 1924, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 15. Before him are Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Carl Spitteler, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Mallory, and Ferdinand Cheval. After him are Robert Nivelle, Eleonora Duse, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Alexander Parvus, Giacomo Matteotti, and Léon Bakst.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 769 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Anastasius II (450), Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (1787), Luca Giordano (1634), Teia (550), Gianni Agnelli (1921), and Tarcisius (263). After him are Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), and Amalasuntha (495).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 31. Before him are Muzio Clementi (1752), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), Ottorino Respighi (1879), and Vincenzo Galilei (1520). After him are Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Vittorio Monti (1868), Pietro Locatelli (1695), Baldassare Galuppi (1706), Amilcare Ponchielli (1834), and Francesca Caccini (1587).

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