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性別

男性

生誕

1869-05-05 （Moscow）

死没

1949-05-22 （Salzburg） 80歳

国籍

German

言語

German

居住地歴

Moscow → Frankfurt → Koblenz → Mainz → Berlin → Strasbourg → Munich → Salzburg

経歴

職業

composer, conductor, music teacher, polemicist

活動期間

1884年〜1949年

所属

Theater des Westens, Berlin, Staatstheater Mainz, Strasbourg Conservatory and Opera, Munich Opera

所属団体

Munich Academy of Music

影響を受けた人物

Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch

影響を与えた人物

Carl Orff, Otto Klemperer, Charles Münch

受賞・候補エディション

作品

作風・主題

文体

post-Romanticconservativeextended thematic developmentchamber music intimacy

頻出モチーフ

German soulcultural pessimismanti-futurism

健康

• gall bladder disease
  1923
  underwent surgery and hospitalized
• mental illness
  1945頃
  became homeless and mentally ill

評価・遺産

Highly regarded post-Romantic composer and anti-modernist, best known for the opera Palestrina. Had complicated relations with Nazis; rehabilitated post-war with renewed interest in his music. Featured on 1994 German postage stamp.

引用

• Busoni places all his hopes for Western music in the future and understands the present and past as a faltering beginning, as the preparation. But what if it were otherwise? What if we find ourselves presently at a high point, or even that we have already passed beyond it?

  出典: Futuristengefahr (1917年)

• Despite all the dark experiences of today I am still confident that Palestrina will remain. The work has all the elements of immortality.

  出典: Letter by Bruno Walter (1962年)

豆知識

• Born in Moscow where his father played cello in a theater orchestra
• Married James Kwast's daughter after she rejected Percy Grainger
• Suspected of being half-Jewish by Nazis and forced to prove Aryan ancestry
• Teachers included Carl Orff and Otto Klemperer among pupils
• Buried in Vienna