biography
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Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji
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originally Leon Dudley Sorabji
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pronunciation:
[sorabjee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892/5–1988)
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| biography:
| Composer, pianist, and polemical essayist, born in Chingford, Essex, SE England, UK, of Parsi and Spanish–Sicilian descent. Largely self-taught, his works are often epic, such as Opus clavicembalisticum (1930), a work of four hours duration in three parts. In addition to piano music, he wrote concertos, organ works, choral music and songs. His witty and outspoken critical writings were collected in Around Music (1932) and Mi contra fa (1947). During 1940–76 he prohibited publication or performance of his works, making them available only through his own recordings. |
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