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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Kaikhosru_Shapurji_Sorabji
GPTKB entity
Statements (51)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
composer
literary criticism
pianist
gptkbp:activeYearsEnd
1980s
gptkbp:activeYearsStart
1910s
gptkbp:birthDate
1892-08-14
gptkbp:birthPlace
gptkb:Chingford,_England
gptkbp:burialPlace
gptkb:St._Edward's_Churchyard,_Corfe_Castle,_Dorset,_England
gptkbp:deathDate
1988-10-15
gptkbp:deathPlace
gptkb:Corfe_Castle,_Dorset,_England
gptkbp:ethnicity
gptkb:Parsi
gptkbp:genre
classical music
modernist music
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
gptkbp:influencedBy
gptkb:Leopold_Godowsky
gptkb:Claude_Debussy
gptkb:Maurice_Ravel
gptkb:Alexander_Scriabin
gptkb:Ferruccio_Busoni
gptkb:Alkan
gptkbp:knownFor
virtuosic piano writing
lengthy compositions
extremely complex piano music
gptkbp:language
gptkb:Arabic
gptkb:French
gptkb:German
gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Gujarati
gptkb:Italian
gptkb:Latin
gptkb:Persian
gptkb:Sanskrit
gptkb:Spanish
English
gptkbp:nationality
British
gptkbp:notableFor
allowed performances again in the 1970s
withdrew his music from public performance for decades
gptkbp:notableWork
gptkb:100_Transcendental_Studies
gptkb:Opus_Clavicembalisticum
gptkb:Piano_Symphony_No._1
gptkb:Piano_Symphony_No._2
gptkb:Piano_Symphony_No._3
gptkb:Sequentia_Cyclica
gptkb:Symphonic_Variations_for_Piano
gptkbp:parent
gptkb:Madeleine_Sorabji
gptkb:Shapurji_Sorabji
gptkbp:pseudonym
gptkb:Leon_Dudley
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Zoroastrianism
gptkbp:sexualOrientation
gay
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Piano_Sonatas
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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