Weber-Godowsky - Contrapuntal Paraphrase on “Invitation to a Dance“ (audio + sheet music)

Among the many great pianists active at the turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth, Godowsky and Busoni loomed as titans, both of them outstanding composers, but both far better known for their arrangements of others’ works. In Berlin, through the early years of the new century, they maintained a friendly rivalry, each attempting to outdo the other concert by concert. While Busoni followed the epic-heroic example of Liszt, Godowsky seems to have been born with a phenomenal musical grasp -- physic