List of compositions by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

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The following list includes all the known compositions of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji sorted by instrumentation. Within the individual sections, the pieces are arranged by genre and chronologically.

Contents

The list of works found here is based on the information provided by Marc-André Roberge's Sorabji Resource Site. [1] [2] [3] Since Sorabji's piece titles tend to contain various problems, Roberge's site amends them when necessary. [4]

Works for orchestra with voices

Symphonies

Other

Works for orchestra without voices

Piano concertos

Numbered: [n 2]

Unnumbered:

Other

Works for voice(s) and chamber ensemble

Works for bells

Works for voice and piano

Chamber works

Piano quintets

Other

Works for piano

Symphonies

Sonatas

Multi-movement toccatas

Variation sets

Sets of aphoristic fragments

Transcriptions

Other

Works for organ

Symphonies

Works for baritone and organ

Lost works

Notes and references

Notes
  1. Alistair Hinton has described this work as a piano concerto. [5]
  2. The numbering used by Roberge is based on reconstructed chronology, not on the numbers found in the manuscripts; "Concerto V for Piano and Large Orchestra" (1927–28), for instance, was the eighth in order of composition. Some of the concertos were not numbered by Sorabji.
  3. Pages 21–40 of the 54-page manuscript are lost. [9]
  4. The piece was written for and dedicated to Norman Pierre Gentieu, one time a bell-ringer at St. Luke's Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now incorporated into Philadelphia). [3] [10]
  5. According to Roberge, this work and Sorabji's 3 transcriptions from 1922 are not pastiches, and the most accurate description of them—even more than "transcription"—is "Nachdichtung". [12]
  6. This work has been described as a toccata. [13]
  7. Simon John Abrahams classifies this piece as a variation set. [14] If considered as such, it is one with 16 variations. [15]
References
  1. "Sorabji Resource Site: Chronological List of Works with KSS Numbers and Years of Publication". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  2. "Sorabji Resource Site: Titles of Works Grouped by Categories". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  3. 1 2 "Sorabji Resource Site: Musical and Literary Sources (with Links to Online Versions)". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  4. "Sorabji Resource Site: Linguistic, Terminological, and Musical Problems in Titles of Works". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  5. "The Sorabji Archive — Articles — Sorabji's piano concertos (2/2)". www.sorabji-archive.co.uk.
  6. "Sorabji Resource Site: Works Ordered by Number of Pages". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  7. Abrahams, p. 46
  8. "Sorabji Resource Site: Manuscripts with Peculiarities". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  9. "The Sorabji Archive — Compositions — KSS22 Music to The Rider by Night". www.sorabji-archive.co.uk.
  10. "Sorabji Resource Site: Dedicatees of Musical Works". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  11. 1 2 "Sorabji Resource Site: Manuscripts with Peculiarities". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.
  12. Roberge, p. 79
  13. Abrahams, pp. 24–25
  14. Abrahams, p. 168
  15. "Sorabji Resource Site: Notes on Un nido di scatole". roberge.mus.ulaval.ca.

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