"What most piano teachers mean by a beautiful tone is centered on bringing out the melody, and always setting the melo…"

"Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time."

"Compared with this art, Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade."

"Moreover, most of the child composers known from the second half of the century composed relatively little: only Stra…"

"Until the autumn of 1934 I had no harpsichord of my own. But a group of people in Boston made it possible for me to b…"

"Busch suggested that Serkin should go to Berlin to study with Ferruccio Busoni (who, as it happens, was a close frien…"

"Berlin’s most eminent musical personality in the early interwar years was the great pianist and composer Ferruccio Bu…"

"Serkin and Busch prepared Busoni’s second violin sonata for performance. Busoni gave them an audience and was pleased…"

"Serkin began to record in the late 1920s. His first effort was on piano rolls with the Freiburg firm of Welte. Its We…"

"Like Liszt, for whom he had a profound admiration, Ferruccio Busoni devoted a significant part of his output to arran…"