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Кайхосру Шапурджи Сорабджи — британский композитор, пианист, музыкальный критик.

✵ 14. Август 1892 – 15. Октябрь 1988
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“To the everlasting glory of those few men blessed and sanctified in the curses and execrations of those many whose praise is eternal damnation.”

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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Dedication to the score of Opus clavicembalisticum (p. 3).

“With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon early finished Clavicembalisticum… The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done — the harmony bites like nitric acid — the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God…”

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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Letter to his friend the Scots composer Erik Chisholm (1904-65) upon completion of Opus clavicembalisticum, 1930; quoted by pianist John Ogdon.

“Visitors unwelcome.”

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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Sign posted at the gate to his English home. The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993. ISBN 002872416X. p. 958.