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Erinn Knyt contributes to the continuing rich and diverse discussion of the musical modernist Ferruccio Busoni and offers us a blueprint for investigating his multi-faceted approach as a composer, pianist, arranger, teacher, thinker, and an architect of sound. For those either familiar or new to the works of Busoni this book provides conceptual, spatial, and structural understandings of a musician who experimented with cross-, inter-, and intra-disciplinary ways of exploring the multi-dimensional possibilities of tonality. * Paul Fleet, Professor of Authentic Music Theory, Newcastle University * Erinn Knyt shows how Busoni's abiding fascination with architecture as a medium and a metaphor illuminates his ambivalent relation to early musical modernism on multiple levels: from his allegiance to Bach and Mozart, the famous Bach transcriptions, the massive yet florid op. 39 Piano Concerto or the polystylistic labyrinth of Doktor Faust, and a high-modernist legacy from Edgard Varese and Stefan Wolpe to Xenakis and Morton Feldman. Connections with Jugendstil architect Henry Van de Velde and the Bauhaus school inform a conception of music as spatialized sound placing Busoni's commitments to old and new music, his own works, and his mentorship of diverse modernist talents in a striking new light. Knyt is unsurpassed as guide to all aspects of Busoni's multi-faceted career. * Thomas Grey, Professor of Music (Musicology), Stanford University *

Erinn E. Knyt, currently the most active Busoni scholar, continues her series of detailed examinations of his contribution to music in the first quarter of the twentieth century, here on an extended scale. Supported as in former publications by careful archival work, she shows how his lifelong fascination with architecture and related concepts permeated many aspects of his original works and arrangements. Her conceptualization of Busoni's creative work contributes to a better understanding of the forms that musical modernism can take when not tied to a clear break with the past as the sole criterion for significance. * Marc Andr'e Roberge, Laval University, Qu'ebec * Erinn Knyt contributes to the continuing rich and diverse discussion of the musical modernist Ferruccio Busoni and offers us a blueprint for investigating his multi-faceted approach as a composer, pianist, arranger, teacher, thinker, and an architect of sound. For those either familiar or new to the works of Busoni this book provides conceptual, spatial, and structural understandings of a musician who experimented with cross-, inter-, and intra-disciplinary ways of exploring the multi-dimensional possibilities of tonality. * Paul Fleet, Professor of Authentic Music Theory, Newcastle University * Erinn Knyt shows how Busoni's abiding fascination with architecture as a medium and a metaphor illuminates his ambivalent relation to early musical modernism on multiple levels: from his allegiance to Bach and Mozart, the famous Bach transcriptions, the massive yet florid op. 39 Piano Concerto or the polystylistic labyrinth of Doktor Faust, and a high-modernist legacy from Edgard Var`ese and Stefan Wolpe to Xenakis and Morton Feldman. Connections with Jugendstil architect Henry Van de Velde and the Bauhaus school inform a conception of music as spatialized sound placing Busoni's commitments to old and new music, his own works, and his mentorship of diverse modernist talents in a striking new light. Knyt is unsurpassed as guide to all aspects of Busoni's multi-faceted career. * Thomas Grey, Professor of Music (Musicology), Stanford University *

Erinn E. Knyt, currently the most active Busoni scholar, continues her series of detailed examinations of his contribution to music in the first quarter of the twentieth century, here on an extended scale. Supported as in former publications by careful archival work, she shows how his lifelong fascination with architecture and related concepts permeated many aspects of his original works and arrangements. Her conceptualization of Busoni's creative work contributes to a better understanding of the forms that musical modernism can take when not tied to a clear break with the past as the sole criterion for significance. * Marc Andr´e Roberge, Laval University, Qu´ebec * Erinn Knyt contributes to the continuing rich and diverse discussion of the musical modernist Ferruccio Busoni and offers us a blueprint for investigating his multi-faceted approach as a composer, pianist, arranger, teacher, thinker, and an architect of sound. For those either familiar or new to the works of Busoni this book provides conceptual, spatial, and structural understandings of a musician who experimented with cross-, inter-, and intra-disciplinary ways of exploring the multi-dimensional possibilities of tonality. * Paul Fleet, Professor of Authentic Music Theory, Newcastle University * Erinn Knyt shows how Busoni's abiding fascination with architecture as a medium and a metaphor illuminates his ambivalent relation to early musical modernism on multiple levels: from his allegiance to Bach and Mozart, the famous Bach transcriptions, the massive yet florid op. 39 Piano Concerto or the polystylistic labyrinth of Doktor Faust, and a high-modernist legacy from Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe to Xenakis and Morton Feldman. Connections with Jugendstil architect Henry Van de Velde and the Bauhaus school inform a conception of music as spatialized sound placing Busoni's commitments to old and new music, his own works, and his mentorship of diverse modernist talents in a striking new light. Knyt is unsurpassed as guide to all aspects of Busoni's multi-faceted career. * Thomas Grey, Professor of Music (Musicology), Stanford University *

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Erinn E. Knyt is Professor of Music History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy, which was awarded an AMS 75 Pays Endowment Book Subvention Grant, and in 2018, she received an AMS Teaching Award for her article ""Teaching Music History Pedagogy to Graduate Students."" Knyt specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth- century music, aesthetics, music history pedagogy, Bach Reception, and performance studies.

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