Indian Fantasy
| Indian Fantasy | |
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| Fantasy by Ferruccio Busoni | |
The composer in 1913
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| Native name | Indianische Fantasie |
| Catalogue | |
| Composed | 1913–14 |
| Performed | 1914: Berlin |
| Movements | 3 |
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The Indian Fantasy (Indianische Fantasie), Op. 44 (BV 264), is a fantasy for piano and orchestra by Ferruccio Busoni. Composed in 1913/14, it was first performed in Berlin in March 1914, with the composer as soloist. The piece is based on several melodies and rhythms from various American Indian tribes; Busoni had received them from American ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin. The fantasy describes the American prairie, and is in three movements:
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