Busoni, Ferruccio 03/01/1866 - 07/27/1924

Busoni was the son of an Italian clarinet virtuoso and a German-born pianist. He grew up bilingual. At the age of 10, he made his debut as a pianist, composer and improviser in Vienna. In 1881, at the age of 15, he became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna. Since 1886, he taught at the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1888, he was a piano teacher at the Conservatory in Helsinki, later in Moscow (1890-1891) and Boston (1891-1894). In 1894, he finally settled down in Berlin.