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Tamara Levitz
BUSONI'S PLACE
IN BERLIN'S MUSICAL LIFE
TEACHING NEW CLASSICALITY
Ferruccio Busoni's Master
Class in Composition
[62-74]
Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996.
European University Studies,
Series 36 [Musicology], vol. 152.
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BUSONI'S PLACE
IN BERLIN'S MUSICAL LIFE
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Thee musical politics in Berlin came as a grave shock to Busoni when he returned in September 1920 after five years of cushioned isolation in Zurich. Friends commented that he lost his courage when he saw the degree to which the city had decayed. [24]. He wrote his eldest son Raffaello, who was studying art in Paris:
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[24] Alicja Simon, a Polish musicologist who had begun visiting Busoni frequently in Zurich during the war and had followed him to Berlin in Fall 1920, wired Gerda, who had temporarily stayed on in Zurich, that Busoni could not cope alone and that she should come immediately. (Busoni to Gerda Busoni, unpublished portion of a letter from 21 September 1920, Dent Collection). The originals of Busoni's letters to Gerda are kept in the Busoni Nachlaß-SBPK 2. The Dent Collection has Dents incomplete transcriptions of most of them.
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