Kaikhosru Sorabji

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) was an English composer, pianist and critic, born in Chingford, Essex, to a Parsi father and an English mother. He wrote very long and dense works, mostly for piano. His Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30) was first performed by Sorabji himself in Glasgow in 1930. From the mid-1930s he discouraged public performances of his music, which was then rarely played for about forty years. Sorabji wrote music criticism for The New Age and The New English Weekly, and later lived in the Dorset village of Corfe Castle.