A number of thoughts and arguments can be advanced to explain why an arranger (often the composer himself) should rewrite a piece for other instruments: In his "Entwurf einer neuen ?sthetik der Tonkunst", Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) tried to put into perspective the difference between the "original" and an "arrangement". He suggested that the original composition idea set down on paper is as "a portrait compared to the living model", and can therefore already be regarded as a sort of transcription. In the same way, the writing down of a musical idea can be seen as "an arrangement of the original", according to Busoni. Taking this into consideration, the transcription of an original setting into a version for another or other instrument(s) is not as drastic as purists often allege. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, by far the best known and most used transcriptions are the