The Compleat Busoni, Volume 1
Larry Sitsky
Larry Sitsky, Professor Emeritus at The Australian National University, is an internationally known composer, pianist, scholar and teacher.
His books are fundamental reference works on subjects such as Australian piano music, the 20th century avant-garde, the piano music of Anton Rubinstein, early 20th century Russian avant-garde, and the classical reproducing piano roll.
This present 3-volume work titled The Compleat Busoni is the result of his life-long work on this composer and surveys all of Busoni’s vast output, as well as providing an ending to Busoni’s Doktor Faust, and definitive realisations of the Fantasia Contrappuntistica in two-piano and orchestral versions.
New insights into Busoni’s style and aesthetics are an integral aspect of this work.