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===Pianism=== [[File:Ferruccio Busoni, ca 1895.jpg|thumb|left|Busoni at the piano, from a postcard produced {{Circa|1895β1900}}]] The pianist [[Alfred Brendel]] said of Busoni's playing that it "signifies the victory of reflection over [[bravura]]" after the more flamboyant era of Liszt. He cites Busoni himself: "Music is so constituted that every context is a new context and should be treated as an 'exception'. The solution of a problem, once found, cannot be reapplied to a different context. Our art is a theatre of surprise and invention, and of the seemingly unprepared. The spirit of music arises from the depths of our humanity and is returned to the high regions whence it has descended on mankind."<ref>Brendel (1976), p. 211.</ref> [[Henry Wood|Sir Henry Wood]] was surprised to hear Busoni playing, with two hands in [[Fifteenth|double octaves]], passages in a Mozart concerto written as single notes. At this, [[Donald Tovey]] proclaimed Busoni "to be an absolute purist in ''not'' confining himself strictly to Mozart's written text", that is, that Mozart himself could have taken similar liberties. The musicologist [[Percy Scholes]] wrote that "Busoni, from his perfect command over every means of expression and his complete consideration of every phrase in a composition to every other phrase and to the whole, was the truest artist of all the pianists [I] had ever heard."<ref>Citations and comment from Scholes (1947), p. 318.</ref> {{Clear}}
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