He's probably best known for his transcriptions, including two concert transcriptions of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies and Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Letters between this composer and Arnold Schoenberg indicate that the latter got pissed at this composer for creating a concert version of the second of Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces. This composer quipped "Music was born free, and to win freedom is its destiny" in A New Esthetic of Music. The nineteen cadenzas created by this composer are denoted with BV numbers one through nineteen. This composer created the one-act opera Arlecchino to accompany his version of Turandot, which he spent thirteen years composing a suite for. His massive (*) Piano Concerto in C major, which takes approximately 70 minutes to perform, ends with a movement in which a male chorus sings lines from the drama Aladdin. He's probably best known for his transcriptions, including two concert transcriptions of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies and Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. For 10 points, name this early 20th century Italian composer.
Letters between this composer and Arnold Schoenberg indicate that the latter got pissed at this composer for creating a concert version of the second of Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces.
Ferruccio Busoni