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

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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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About Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (14 August 1892 – 15 October 1988), born Leon Dudley Sorabji, was an English composer, pianist, and writer on music of mixed Parsi and English extraction. He was famed for his extraordinarily long and difficult piano compositions; his Opus clavicembalisticum (1929–30) was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest non-repetitive piano composition ever written.

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Birth Name: Leon Dudley Sorabji
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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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