Born in Florence on October 1, 1931. He began studying violin with Margherita Castellani even before the age of five years of age. At the Conservatory "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence will study harmony and counterpoint with the piano with Roberto Lupi and Luigi Dallapiccola : studies interrupted by the war, without achieving any qualifications.
Determinants, for his education, his brother Renzo and his maternal uncle Tono Zancanaro , both painters and, later, the encounter with the poet Aldo Braibanti .From 1949 to 1956 explores the self-taught, studying composition. In Paris, during the period 1956 to 1958, he attended the private courses of Max Deutsch , he metPierre Boulez and Heinz-Klaus Metzger , who led him to Darmstadt , where he met John Cage .
It begins in Germany in 1958, the public activity, with the execution of his music by the pianist David Tudor , followed by the presentation in Paris of songs performed by Cathy Berberian under the direction of Pierre Boulez .
The Universal Edition and later, publishers Moeck and Bruzzichelli publish some of his scores in those years. Will finally Ricordi , in 1956, holds a major report Bussotti editorial.
Stay in the U.S. in 1964-65, invited by the Rockefeller Foundation in Buffalo and New York , after having been granted three awards by the ISCM in the years 1961, 1963 and 1965. In 1967 he received the " Amelia "of theVenice Biennale and in 1974 the award " Tuscany of today and in 1979 the prize Psacaropulo in Turin. In Berlin, in 1972, is for one year, a guest of the DAAD for the Ford Foundation . E 'was artistic director of Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago has taught the history of musical theater at the Academy of Fine Arts in Eagle. In 1980 he was professor of composition and analysis at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Director of Music at the Venice Biennale from 1987 to 1991.
As a boy working on the musical composition as well as to drawing and painting, art exhibitions being mounted into various countries around the world. From giving concerts spread the theatrical experience that led him to work on film and television. Since 1965, the fundamental aspect of its work consists of performances of musical theater, creative synthesis of his experience made in the BUSSOTTIOPERABALLET , the name shortened to BOB he founded inGenazzano in 1984 and organizes concerts, shows, exhibitions' art and events with a broad international scope.
Academic Bussotti is the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, S. Academic Cecilia Knight of Marck Twain, Mickey Mouse Knight, Honorary Citizen of the City of Palermo Commandeur de l'Ordre des Artes des Lettres and the French State.
