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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 525,190 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ferruccio Busoni is the 163rd most popular composer (up from 166th in 2019), the 783rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 745th in 2019) and the 34th 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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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 163 out of 1,216Before him are Giovanni Paisiello, Marin Marais, Vittorio Monti, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Francesco Cavalli, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. After him are John Barry, Nicola Porpora, Scott Joplin, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Franz von Suppé, and Witold Lutosławski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 14Before him are Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Beatrix Potter, Aby Warburg, Giovanni Agnelli, and Hans von Seeckt. After him are Aleksandr Ulyanov, Jacinto Benavente, Anne Sullivan, Charles Nicolle, Ramsay MacDonald, and Emilio De Bono. Among people deceased in 1924, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 14Before him are Louis Sullivan, Gabriel Fauré, Carl Spitteler, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and George Mallory. After him are Robert Nivelle, Ferdinand Cheval, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, G. Stanley Hall, Giacomo Matteotti, and Léon Bakst.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 783 out of 4,668Before him are Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Vitiges (475), Francesco Cavalli (1602), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Pope Leo V (870), and Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135). After him are Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Peter, King of Hungary (1011), Italo Balbo (1896), Laura Bassi (1711), and Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671).

Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ferruccio Busoni ranks 34Before him are Gregorio Allegri (1582), Ottorino Respighi (1879), Vincenzo Galilei (1520), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Vittorio Monti (1868), and Francesco Cavalli (1602). After him are Amilcare Ponchielli (1834), Maurizio Pollini (1942), Baldassare Galuppi (1706), Giuseppe Torelli (1658), Luciano Berio (1925), and Francesco Landini (1325).