Indian Fantasy

The Indian Fantasy (Indianische Fantasie), Op. 44 (BV 264), is a fantasy for piano and orchestra by Ferruccio Busoni. Composed in 1913/14, it was first performed in Berlin in March 1914, with the composer as soloist.^[1] The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin. The fantasy describes the American prairie, and is in three movements:

• Fantasy
• Canzona
• Finale

• Curtis, Natalie. "Busoni’s Indian Fantasy" in Southern Workman vol. 44, October 1915, pp/ 538-543
• "Giovanni Bellucci plays Ferruccio Busoni - Indian Fantasy op.44" on YouTube

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Lists: Compositions · Adaptations · Discography

Operas

• Die Brautwahl (1912)
• Turandot (1917)
• Arlecchino (1917)
• Doktor Faust (1925)

Concertos

• Concerto for Piano and String Quartet (1878)
• Piano Concerto (1904)
• Indian Fantasy (1916)

Orchestral

• Comedy Overture (1897)
• Turandot Suite (1905)
• Berceuse élégiaque (1909)

Piano compositions

• Elegies (1908)
• An die Jugend (1909)
• Fantasia contrappuntistica (1910)
• Klavierübung

Piano editions
and transcriptions

• Bach-Busoni Editions
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor (JS Bach)
• Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni

Keyboard students

• Guido Agosti
• Maud Allan
• Ignaz Friedman
• Rudolf Ganz
• Percy Grainger
• Louis Gruenberg
• Egon Petri
• Leo Sirota
• Zdenka Ticharich
• Józef Turczyński

Composition students

• Natalie Curtis
• Philipp Jarnach
• Edgard Varèse
• Wladimir Vogel
• Kurt Weill
• Stefan Wolpe
• George Frederick Boyle

Related articles

• Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
• Ferruccio Busoni discography (as pianist)

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