Abstract
Few works in twentieth-century music have attracted the attention of transcribers as much as Ferruccio Busoni's Fantasia contrappuntistica. This modern realization of Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue, which exists in four versions written by the composer between 1910 and 1921, has been arranged at least six times between 1911 and 1984. So far these arrangements have been only briefly introduced or mentioned in passing. The background and performance history of one of them, Frederick Stock's version for large orchestra and organ, deserves to be studied in some detail not only for itself but also for the light it sheds on Busoni's relationships with some of his American friends.
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