Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. Date: 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0313236712 . Musical notation; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 423 pages; 1986 Greenwood Press. HC 1st edition. Tightly bound and fresh in original green cloth lettered brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Feels and appears generally unread. Prior owner's attractive woodcut bookplate to front pastedown. Musical notation reproduced throughout. Just about as new. NF . 1986. Greenwood Press ISBN 0313236712 9780313236716 [US]

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, Date: 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. Musicologists, pianists, composers and music-lovers in general will welcome the re-issue and second edition of Larry Sitsky's Busoni and the Piano, which has been out of print for a number of years. The second edition, which brings various aspects of the book up-to-date, will thus once again be available. Since the book was written in the late 1970s, Busoni has re-emerged as an important figure in early 20th-century music, and moreover, one who seems to be exerting an ever-widening influence on current thought and pianism. Larry Sitsky has spent a lifetime performing, teaching, editing and studying Busoni's music. He has recently completed an ending to Busoni's great opera Dr. Faust, which will be heralded in the great opera houses of Europe; as well, he is currently working on another book on Busoni's instrumental, vocal and operatic music, and must be considered a world authority on this fascinating figure." Octavo, xiv, 409 pp. Green cloth. No dust jacket, if issued. Outer edges of book block show minor soiling from shelf wear. Pages remain clean and unmarked. 1986. Greenwood Press ISBN 0313236712 9780313236716 [US]

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Busoni and the Piano: The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings. ISBN 0313236712 9780313236716 [GB]

ISBN10: 0313236712, ISBN13: 9780313236716, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume is decidely a labor of love. The work is not merely a catalog of all the piano compositions (solo, four hands, two pianos, piano and orchestra, arrangements, transcriptions, hybrid works, unpublished works) as the title might imply, but a vast descriptive, critical, and sometimes analytical essay. The splendid, many-faceted treatment was almost necessary if the author were to fulfill his aim to throw some light on Busoni's thought processes as a composer and performer and to interest pianists in performing Busoni, ' He thus treats many areas of the composer's work, such as his theory of notation, his compositional growth, etc. Essential for academic music collections. -Library Journal
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1986]
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