Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (1892-1988) · United Kingdom · Musicians · Died at 96
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Something wrong?Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. His music, written over a period of seventy years, ranges from sets of miniatures to works lasting several hours.
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Sorabji in his youth
Sorabji, c. 1950
A view of the village of Corfe Castle, Dorset, where Sorabji settled in the 1950s and lived in seclusion
Sorabji's tombstone in "God's Acre", the Corfe Castle cemetery
Sorabji in 1945. His ring (which he said had belonged to a Sicilian cardinal) is visible on his left hand.Listen
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. His music, written over a period of seventy years, ranges from sets of miniatures to works lasting several hours. One of the most prolific 20th-century composers, he is best known for his piano pieces, notably nocturnes such as Gulistān and Villa Tasca, and large-scale, technically intricate compositions, which include seven symphonies for piano solo, four toccatas, Sequentia cyclica and 100 Transcendental Studies. He felt alienated from English society by reason of his homosexuality and mixed ancestry, and had a lifelong tendency to seclusion.
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