![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Piano Music of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was a British born composer, pianist, and author who wrote some of the longest and most difficult to perform works for the piano ever composed. Although a 20th century composer his works had more in common with the elaborate counterpoint of Bach than with the modern compositions of his contemporaries, such as Cage, Antheil, or Schoenberg. His compositions were so difficult to play that he actually forbid public performance of them for decades, so as to avoid them from ...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Documentary; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Shapurji Sorabji
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