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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, né Leon Dudley Sorabji, est un compositeur, critique musical et pianiste classique britannique, né le 14 août 1892 à Chingford – mort le 15 octobre 1988 à Winfrith Newburgh dans le Dorset. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. août 1892 – 15. octobre 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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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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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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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.