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Piano Sonata No. 0, KSS 9 by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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On 8 March 1917 Sorabji completed his first extant work for piano solo, an unnumbered sonata thathas come to be known as Sonata no. 0 (1917; 30 pp.).The work is unique in Sorabji’s production for its several crossed-out passages. In fact, hecancelled, entirely or partially, 42 out of 150 systems (or 48 bars out of 260). He seems to have donethis quite at random, for there is no meaningful link on either side of a cut that would make it logicalfor one bar to follow another. Sorabji must have simply considered his work too long and decided tocross out systems. Upon seeing a work like this one, many critics will be tempted to accuse him ofwriting by aligning chunks of music in random order; in fact, this impression is reinforced by frequentchanges of tempo.Sorabji’s sonata contains many highly evocative French directions that recall Skryabin’s works, like“Avec charme et douceur”, “Flamboyant, comme des traits d’étincelles”, “Ondulant, limpide”, and“Sauvage, avec colère”. These directions are so numerous as to suggest that the composer’s prioritywas to outdo his model, as do the many gestures consisting of fast note values followed by trills (bars112–4, 158–60, 205–6). The pianistic wr

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Author

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Publisher

Sorabji Archive

Published

2015

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Arts