Beyond B A C H - the Answer of Busoni

Umberto Boccioni, Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni, 1916
Source: CD Booklet Cover (Tactus TC 860201)
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ritratto_di_Busoni,_1916_%28Roberto_Biccioni%29.jpg)

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny

(Busoni, Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music)

The answer of Busoni to the challenge of B A C H motif was Fantasia contrappuntistica: Preludio corale / Fuga I /Fuga II / Fuga III (on B A C H) / Intermezzo / Variazione I /Variazione II / Variazione III / Cadenza / Fuga IV / Corale / Stretta

Ferruccio Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica, 3rd, final version, 1912
Alvaro Ordoñez - Piano
recorded at Auditorio Olav Roots
Conservatorio de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 2003
(video by Alvaro Ordoñez)

In 1907 Busoni was predicting a future music that included the division of the octave into more than the traditional 12 degrees.

(The B A C H motif)