Berceuse élégiaque is an orchestral work composed by Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

 in 1909. Originally written for solo piano, to be added as the seventh piece in his 1907 collection Elegies

Elegies (Busoni)

Elegies by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni is a set of solo piano pieces which can be played as a cycle or separately. Initially published in 1908 with six pieces, it was subsequently expanded to seven by the addition of the Berceuse...

, Busoni adapted it for orchestra later the same year. This orchestral version was sub-titled 'Des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarge seiner Mutter' ('The man's lullaby at his mother's coffin'). The first performance of Berceuse élégiaque was in New York

New York

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in 1911.