Junge Klassizität

Young Classicism: Busoni's aesthetic concept, articulated around 1920, calling for a music that rejects Romantic sentimentality and returns to clarity, economy, and objectivity — not by imitating the past, but by mastering and transcending it. The concept shaped his late piano works.

Approach the late Busoni sonatinas and the Toccata with transparency and precision rather than Romantic warmth. The affect should feel inevitable and clear, not personal or expressive in a Romantic sense. Ornament lightly; let the architecture speak.