Indian Fantasy | |
Type: | Fantasy |
Composer: | Ferruccio Busoni |
Native Name: | German: Indianische Fantasie |
Catalogue: | BV 264 |
Opus: | 44 |
Composed: | –14 |
Movements: | 3 |
The Indian Fantasy (German: Indianische Fantasie), Op. 44 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.[1] 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: