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	Podcast:		Great Lives
	Episode:		Conductor and composer Ferruccio Busoni
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:27:26
	Publish Date:		2019-05-01 06:29:00
	Description:		Pianist Kirill Gerstein chooses the conductor and composer Ferruccio Busoni. Matthew Parris presents. When Busoni died in Berlin in 1924, his pupil Kurt Weill said, "We did not lose a human being but a value." Unravelling exactly what this means is the pianist Kirill Gerstein, a great admirer of Busoni and also a performer of his work. Busoni was a thinker as well as a composer. His book from 1907, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music, has influenced generations of musicians. The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde.
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