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Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988). Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED. London: J. Curwen & Sons. [1931]. First Edition.

Rare signed copy of the notoriously long and virtuosic piano work.

252 pp. (Large oblong folio) 28 x 39 cm (11x15½") original wrappers bound in three quarter purple leather over green cloth, spine with five raised bands, title in gilt to spine and front board plate. Numbered XVI of only twenty-three copies printed on Whatman handmade paper and signed by the composer.  Binding lightly worn with partial splitting to upper front joint, scattered very minor foxing throughout, overall a very fine copy of this uncommon score. 

At the time of its first performance in 1930, the Opus Clavicembalisticum was the longest piano solo work ever composed, taking over four hours to play. It is one of the most important works by the colorful, enigmatic Parsi composer and journalist best known for this and other keyboard works of labyrinthine complexity and protracted length. Notorious for his reclusiveness and prickly manner, Sorabji imposed a decades-long moratorium on performances of his works, relenting only in his final years.

Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988) Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED

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Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. (1892 - 1988). Opus Clavicembalisticum - SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE LONGEST SOLO PIANO WORKS EVER COMPOSED. London: J. Curwen & Sons. [1931]. First Edition.

Rare signed copy of the notoriously long and virtuosic piano work.

252 pp. (Large oblong folio) 28 x 39 cm (11x15½") original wrappers bound in three quarter purple leather over green cloth, spine with five raised bands, title in gilt to spine and front board plate. Numbered XVI of only twenty-three copies printed on Whatman handmade paper and signed by the composer.  Binding lightly worn with partial splitting to upper front joint, scattered very minor foxing throughout, overall a very fine copy of this uncommon score. 

At the time of its first performance in 1930, the Opus Clavicembalisticum was the longest piano solo work ever composed, taking over four hours to play. It is one of the most important works by the colorful, enigmatic Parsi composer and journalist best known for this and other keyboard works of labyrinthine complexity and protracted length. Notorious for his reclusiveness and prickly manner, Sorabji imposed a decades-long moratorium on performances of his works, relenting only in his final years.

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