Joel Lazar [[log in to unmask]] seems to know Dr Faustus from Busoni
rather well:

>The Nagano Doktor Faustus [...] the DGG set by Leitner.  Busoni was
>writing "intertextual" music [actually so was Brahms] even before
>Stravinsky and Schoenberg "discovered" the past...I find it enormously
>stimulating as well as moving..others may not..

A few questions I would be interested in hearing more about: Does this Dr
Faustus bear any resembleance to the other Faustuses by Gounod, Pugnani et
al in music or libretto? How carefully does the libretto follow Goethes
version?

Mats Norrman
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