Word: soni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Master, a Slave. He couldn't have cared less. By the time he was 40, Bu soni was sick of performing and wanted only to compose. During the summer, when the concert circuit closed down, he wrote music like a madman; and what he wrote, though not great music, is sometimes music of great fascination and historical importance. Busoni is an important moment of transition in mu sic. He falls between two styles, the romantic and the modern. In his struggle to reconcile the two, he helped to break up the romantic tradition and in his late compositions...