The Art of Music: Busoni Rediscovered: Fantasia Contrappuntistica November 22, 2009

The Art of Music presents a concert by Rosanne Vita Nahass, Zimmerli Art Museum Pianist in Residence. She will perform music Ferrucio Busoni. Busoni is often overlooked and his landmark masterpiece, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica, is rarely heard in public performance. Composed in 1910 and completed in New Orleans during an American concert tour, the Fantasia Contrappuntistica is based on Bach's unfinished last composition, The Art of Fugue. Busoni rewrites the work perhaps as Bach would have, had he lived bridging the era of Romanticism with Modernity.