Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Quotes

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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.

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

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...

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Born: August 14, 1892

Died: October 15, 1988 (aged 96)

Bio: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. He was one of the 20th century's most prolific piano composers.

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