巴赫的《郭德堡變奏曲》是巴羅克時期最龐大的一首鍵盤作品。它展現出巴赫對當時不同音樂風格、寫作技法的了解與熟悉，融合並拓展鍵盤技巧的各種可能，總結了巴羅克時期的變奏曲創作；以今日的眼光來看，《郭德堡變奏曲》的重要性無庸置疑。然而，在音樂史上，這首樂曲的評價與接受度並非一直如此。整體而言，從1741年出版之後，《郭德堡變奏曲》並沒有受到太多注意，直到二十世紀，其價值才逐漸受到肯定，並因為顧爾德（Glenn Gould, 1932-1982）1955年的錄音，才受到舉世注目。然而，早在二十世紀初，布梭尼（Ferruccio Busoni, 1866-1924）便已看出此曲的價值，不但將其列入音樂會曲目，並為此曲創作了適合於音樂會及現代鋼琴上演奏的改編版本。
布梭尼改編的《郭德堡變奏曲》創作於1914年，1915年由出版商Breitkopf & Härtel出版。布梭尼以鋼琴家、指揮家、作曲家、理論家、教育家等多重身分，活躍於十九世紀末、二十世紀初的國際樂壇，曾編輯、改編許多巴赫作品，影響甚鉅；詮釋觀點自有其美學淵源與實務背景。布梭尼改編之《郭德堡變奏曲》，不但是他對於巴赫作品詮釋觀點的體現，也為鋼琴家提供了另外一種詮釋的思考方向。但目前在國內外卻幾乎無法找到以此曲為主題的研究資料，有聲資料亦寥寥可數。究其原因，不同時代間詮釋風格的轉變，應是最大的原因。本篇論文即由此方向，分析布梭尼對於《郭德堡變奏曲》的各種改編手法、內容與特色，探討此曲至今未受重視的可能原因，以及對於此曲定位與價值的重新省思。

一、樂譜
Bach, Johann Sebastian / Busoni, Ferruccio. J. S. Bach Klavierwerke Busoni-Ausgabe, Band XV. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1920.

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Goldberg Variations BWV 988. Ed. Carl Czerny, Friedrich Conrad Griepenkerl, Ferdinand August Roitzsch, Frankfurt: Edition Peters, 1837.

_____. Goldberg Variations BWV 988. Ed. Carl Ferdinand Becker. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1853.

_____. The “Goldberg” Variations. Ed. Ralph Kirkpatrick. New York: Schirmer, 1935.

_____. Goldberg Variations BWV 988. Ed. Kurt Soldan. Frankfurt: Edition Peters, 1937.

_____. Italienisches Konzert, Französische Ouverture, Vier Duette, Goldberg-Variationen. Ed. Rudolf Steglich. München: G. Henle Verlag, 1962.

_____. The Goldberg Variations. Ed. Christoph Wolff. Wien: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1977.

二、期刊
Eichler, Jeremy. “The Man who knew too much—the great, unknown Ferrucio Busoni.” New Republic, 224/11(Mar. 12, 2001), 30-34.

Johansen, G. etc.. “Busoni the Pianist: in Perspective.” Piano Quarterly, 28/108(1979-1980), 46-47.

Ledbetter, David. “The artful Harpsichord.” Early Music, Vol.33(Aug. 2005), 535-536.

Leichtentritt, Hugo. “Ferrucio Busoni as a Composer.” Musical Quarterly, 3(1917), 69-97.

Hall, Cory. “Bach's Goldberg Variations demystified.” American Music Teacher, Vol. 54(Apr/May, 2005), 35-98.

Jander, Owen. “Rhythmic symmetry in the Golberg Variations.” Musical Quarterly, Vol. 75(Winter, 1991), 188-194.

Street, Alan. “The rhetorico-musical structure of the “Goldberg” variations: Bach's Clavier-Übung IV and the Institutio oratoria of Quintilian.” Music Analysis, Vol. 6 (Apr/May, 1987), 89-131.

三、中文書目
Rosalyn Tureck.《巴赫演奏指南—對歷史、結構及演奏的根本研究》（An Introduction to the Performance of Bach）。盛原、盛方 譯。北京：人民音樂出版社，2003。

Robert Philip.《如何從唱片聽門道—錄音時代的演奏藝術》（Performing Music in the Age of Recording）。陳效真 譯。台北市：音樂時代文化事業有限公司，2007。

林嘉瑋。〈Ferruccio Busoni之音樂思想－《新音樂美學草案》初探〉。國立臺北藝術大學碩士論文，2004。

邱映潔。〈布梭尼《對位幻想》BV256研究〉。輔仁大學碩士論文，2002。

黃美甄。〈巴赫：郭德堡變奏曲詮釋報告〉。國立台灣師範大學碩士詮釋報告，2003。

蔡永凱。〈布拉姆斯與布梭尼改編巴赫《夏康舞曲》中之炫技性〉。臺灣大學碩士論文，2003。

焦元溥。《遊藝黑白—世界鋼琴家訪問錄，（上）、（下）冊》。台北市：聯經，2007。

四、外文書目
American Bach Society. Bach Perspectives. Lincoln: University Nebraska Press, 1995.

Badura-Skoda, Paul, translated by Alfred Clayton. Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Beaumont, Antony. Busoni the Composer. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1985.

Bodky, Erwin. The Interpretation of Bach's Keyboard Works. New York: Greenwood Press, 1976.

Brown, Howard Mayerand and Stanly Sadie, ed.. Performance Practice, Music after 1600. New York: Norton, 1989.

Busoni, Ferruccio, translated by Th. Baker. “Sketch of a new esthetic of music” in Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music. New York: Dover Publications, 1962.

______, translated by Rosamond Ley. Letters to his wife. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1938.

______, translated by Rosamond Ley. The Essence of Music, and other papers. Conn: Hyperion Press, 1979.

Butt, John ed.. The Cambridge Companion to Bach. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Carol, MacClintock. Readings in the History of Music in Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.

Cyr, Mary. Performing Baroque Music. Portland: Amadeus Press, 1992.

David, Hans, and Arthur Mendel. The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. New York: Norton, 1998.

Dent, Edward Joseph. Ferruccio Busoni: A Biography. Milford: Oxford university press, 1933.

Donington, Robert. Baroque Music: Style and Performance. London: Faber Music Ltd., 1982.

Dorian, Frederick. The History of Music in Performance. New York: Norton, 1942.

Dubal, David. Reflections from the Keyboard : the World of the Concert Pianist. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.

Ferguson, Howard. Style and Interpretation: An Anthology of Keyboard Music, Vol.1 and 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.

______. Keyboard Interpretation from the 14th to the 19th Century: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Gray, Cecil. A Survey of Contemporary Music. Conn: Greenwood Press, 1972.

Kentner, Louis. Piano. New York: Schirmer Books, 1976.

Kirkpatrick, Ralph. Interpreting Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier: A Performer’s Discourse of Method. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Little, Meredith, and Natalie Jenne. Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1991.

Messing, Scott. Neoclassicism in Music. New York: University of Rochester Press, 1988.

Robert, Walter. From Bach to Brahms: A Musician’s Journey Through Keyboard Music. Indiana: Tichenor Publishing, 1994.

Schulenberg, David. The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach. New York: Schirmer Books, 1992.

Sitsky, Larry. Busoni and the Piano. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Walls, Peter. History, Imagination and the Performance of Music. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003.

Williams, Peter. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Wolff, Konrad. Masters of the Keyboard：Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

五、網路資源
Grossman, David J. “Dave’s J. S. Bach Page.” http://www.jsbach.net/index.html/.

Kumamoto, Mari. “Music Of Intellect—The Goldberg Variations.” http://www.geocities.jp/imyfujita/goldberg/indexe.html/.

Makin, Vance. “The Goldberg Variations.” http://www.thegoldbergvariations.com/.

Shikata, Yoshiro. “Goldberg Variations.” http://www.a30a.com/.

六、有聲資料
Bach, Johann Sebastian. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Andrei Gavrilov, Piano. Deutsche Grammophon 435 436-2, 1993.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Angela Hewitt, Piano. Hyperion Records B00004S3B4, 2000.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Chen Pi-Hsien, Piano. Naxos 8.550078, 1985.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Claudio Arrau, Piano. RCA CD GD 87841, 1942.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. (The Historic 1955 Debut Recording). Glenn Gould, Piano. Sony Classical 52 594, 1955.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Glenn Gould, Piano. CBS Masterworks MK 37779, 1981.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD77149, 1978.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Murray Perahia, Piano. Sony Classical SK/SM 89243, 2000.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Rosalyn Tureck, Piano. Video Artists Int'l, 2000.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Wanda Landowska, harpsichord. EMI5 67200, 1933.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Wilhelm Kempff, Piano. Deutsche Grammophon 439 978-2, 1969.

______. Bach: The Goldberg Variations, Busoni Edition. Claudius Tanski, Piano. Dabringhaus & Grimm 3121323, 2005.