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Supplement to The Music Trade Review, July 31, 1915.
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Busoni Plays to a World-Wide Audience
Sitting at a grand piano in a quiet studio
in Aeolian Hall, Ferruccio Busoni, the great
modern master of Bach and Liszt, the foremost
pianist of Italian birth, played to the greatest
audience that has ever thrilled to the glories of
any musician's art.
The flashing intensity of the Liszt "Paganini"
Etudes, the sombre minors and the frenzied
climaxes of the Nineteenth Rhapsodie, the won-
derful, heart-stirring bell-tones of "La Cam-
panella" throbbed through the reaches of the
studio and beat upon deaf walls.
Such music as it is rarely given to any pianist
to make—and unheard by any save two mem-
bers of the Aeolian staff.
Yet this wonder music will electrify the
minds of thousands, will ring forth in hundreds
of homes. The children of tomorrow's genera-
tion will find new beauties in it—the power of
these interpretations will place this artist's
name among the immortals!
As Busoni sits at the pianoforte calling forth
his magnificent harmonies, an instrument of re-
markable ingenuity records with the precision
and accuracy of electric impulses every phrase
—every sweeping run and crashing climax,
every rubato, every shade of power and elusive
quality of tone.
And presently this wonderful record is placed
in the Duo-Art Pianola, and the artist listens
critically while "fingers of air" reproduce every
touch of his fingers upon keys, bringing forth
again, his exquisite interpretations with utmost
fidelity—even to the last subtle emphasis of note
or chord. Just as he hears, so countless thou-
sands shall hear the art of Busoni revoiced by
this great modern pianoforte.
The DUO-ART Pianola
is undoubtedly the greatest achievement in the history of the piano industry. It
is the result of years of manufacturing experience and protracted experimentation
by a corps of trained investigators and scientific men. All the resources of the
originative and creative forces of the Aeolian Company have been called into play
in the production of this marvelous instrument.
The wide recognition at once accorded The Duo-Art Pianola by the musical world
—its immediate and unqualified success in the New York City market—stamps it as
a certain business builder. And Aeolian representatives everywhere will profit in
actual business and prestige by this latest member of the great Pianola family.
THE AEOLIAN
"Largest Manufacturers
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COMPANY
of Musical Instruments in the World"
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Aeolian Hall, 42nd Street, West of Fifth Avenue, New York
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