An Die Jugend - Composition and Publication Details

Composition and Publication Details

1) Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio
Composed: June 1909 (Beaumont)
Manuscript: Busoni Archive No. 264
Title: Preludietto Fughetta
•3 separate pages, written on one side only, unpaginated
Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright 1909, cat. no. Z. 4755, (11 pages)
Dedication: Josef Turczyński
Duration: 5 minutes (Beaumont)
2) Preludio, Fuga e Fuga figurata
Composed: July 1909
Manuscript: Busoni Archive No. 240
Title: Fuga figurata. (nach dem Prael. + Fuga aus dem W. Cl. v. J. S. Bach)
•4 pages (1 notated, 2 blank, 1 notated)
Date: "3. Juli 1909 F. Busoni" (at the end of the composition)
Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright, cat. no. Z. 4756, (11 pages)
Dedication: Louis Theodor Grünberg
Duration: 4 minutes (Beaumont)
3) Giga, Bolero e Variazione
Composed: July 1909 (B.)
Manuscript: Busoni Archive No. 240 (attachment)
Title: Variazione (Gigue – Bolero e Variazione) (d'après Mozart)
•1 page with only 6 measures
Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright, cat. no. Z. 4757, (11 pages)
Dedication: Leo Sirota
Duration: 4 minutes (Beaumont)
4) Introduzione e Capriccio (Paganinesco) & Epilogo
Composed: August 1909 (Beaumont)
Manuscript: unknown
Original publication: Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann, Copyright 1909, cat. no. Z. 4781, (13 pages)
Dedication: Louis Closson; Emile R. Blanchet (Epilogo)
Duration: 7 minutes (Beaumont)
Note: Four of the dedicatees (Turczyński, Gruenberg, Sirota, Closson) were master class pupils of Busoni in Vienna, Jul 1908 (Beaumont, 1987, p. 91), while Blanchet had been a pupil at a master class in Weimar, Jul-Sep, 1899 (Dent).
Later Publications:
1) Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d., cat. nos. E.B. 4944-4947.
2) Milan: Carisch & Jänichen, n.d.
3) No. 2: In Bach-Busoni Edition, Volume IV, 1916.
4) No. 4 (without Epilogo): In Klavierübung, Book 10, 1925.
Ref: Dent, pp. 125, 224; Beaumont, pp. 91, 148-157, 368; Sitsky, pp. 65-66, 206-208, 264-266, 289-290, 373, 374; Kindermann, p. 242; Roberge, p. 34.

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