KSS51 Piano Symphony no. 0

Piece details

  • Written for: Piano
  • Instruments: [Piano]
  • Date composed: 1930–31
  • Dedicatee: Erik Chisholm
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 320
  • Manuscript pages: 333
  • Manuscript location: Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel
  • Comments: Piano work originally intended as the piano part only of work “Symphony II for piano, large orchestra, organ, chorus and solo voices”, but abandoned in this form.
    I PARS PRIMA
    Prologo
    Introito
    Fantasia
    Cadenza
    Coda-Stretta
    II PARS ALTERA
    Adagio
    Punta d’organo
    Notturno-Fantasia
    Ritournelle — point d’orgue
    III PARS TERTIA
    Prelude
    Toccata varié (theme, 64 variations)
    Cadenza-fugata
    Coda-epilogo

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Typeset edition (Alex Abercrombie, Abel Sánchez-Aguilera), A3L. 458 pages.
    Price: £120 (paper), £40 (pdf)
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  • Manuscript, A3L. 333 pages.
    Price: £75 (paper), £25 (pdf)
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