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Italian composer
Definition
Transcription: in Busoni's philosophy, not merely an act of copying but a creative reinterpretation of another work for a new medium. Busoni argued that all performance and notation is transcription, and that the act of transcribing is a form of composition.
Interpretive Guidance
When performing Busoni's transcriptions of Bach, understand that the piano writing is not an approximation of the organ: it is a new work that uses the original as its material. Embrace the pianistic idiom fully.