Sorabji Resource Site: Editors of Music Scores

Editors of Music Scores

This page is a tribute to the dedicated work of the editors, through whose entirely unpaid efforts Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s music has become increasingly available in readable form in editions published, unless otherwise noted, by the Sorabji Archive.

The editors are listed in alphabetical order, with their editions in chronological order.
A bullet (•) is used at the end of entries in the Publication column when an edition by another editor exists, and in the Title and Comments when an edition was done by hand.
Multiple editions published by a given editor in a single year are not necessarily listed in the order of publication.
The number of pages devoted to the music itself, i.e., excluding any introduction or critical report, is given in the rightmost column.

Some entries are blank if the information is not relevant due to the nature of the edition. This applies for example to a corrected edition of a score published under the composer’s supervision, which is identical in layout to the original. Editions in progress are listed as they are published.

Roberge’s editions (as well as his two bibliographical compilations) were made available to the Sorabji Archive in March 2009 in a second impression, from which the Sorabji Archive is now issuing copies. These new impressions correct various errors, mostly in the text but sometimes also in the music. Some of his editions are also available in second editions.

The editors of the corrected editions of the Fantaisie espagnole (1919; 23 pp.) and the Valse-fantaisie for Piano (1925; 16 pp.) appear as Rice and Amato and as Amato and Rice, respectively, on the title pages. They have been entered here using the latter order to enable correct grouping when sorting.

A message by Alistair Hinton on the Sorabji Forum lists the editions currently in progress (as of 29 March 2014), but does not name the editors. See also page Progress in Sorabji editing, performing and recording, which is generated from data in the Sorabji Archive’s database.

The table below shows the number of newly edited scores were published in each year with the number of pages of music; years with no publication are omitted. Numbers of pages are not given for sets of parts, and corrected editions of scores published by Sorabji during his lifetime are not included.

Click on a column heading to sort, then shift-click on other headings to sort on multiple columns.
Surround strings with quotation marks for specific searches. Refresh the page to revert to the initial order.

Year	Works (N)	Pages (N)
Year	Works (N)	Pages (N)
2024	2	20
2022	1	693
2021	3	254
2020	1	118
2019	2	478
2017	1	1001
2016	2	282
2015	2	497
2014	7	1438
2013	8	138
2012	3	307
2010	1	113
2009	1	432
2008	4	463
2007	12	238
2006	8	40
2005	8	323
2004	9	546
2003	1
2002	6	166
1999	1	53
1994	4	262
1993	7	32
1992	8	95
1991	2	423
1989	2	5
1988	2	18
1987	1	7
1980	2
1969	1	16
Total	111	4833

Editor(s)	Publication	Title and Comments	Pages (N)
Editor(s)	Publication	Title and Comments	Pages (N)
Abercrombie, Alexander	2004	Toccata seconda per pianoforte (1933-34; 111 pp.)	164
Abercrombie, Alexander	2005	Introduction, Passacaglia, Cadenza, and Fugue (1929; compl. Alexander Abercrombie, 2004; 79 pp.)	79
Abercrombie, Alexander	2005	Il gallo d’oro da Rimsky-Korsakov: Variazioni frivole con una fuga anarchica, eretica e perversa (1978-79; 93 pp.)	95
Abercrombie, Alexander (et al.)	2007	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.) The complex edition history of this work is as follows: Marc-André Hamelin•: nos. 1-18 (handwritten; work begun on 31 August 1989, publ. 1994) Frazer Jarvis: no. 17 (typesetting of Hamelin’s handwritten edition, incorporating corrections) Lukas Huisman: nos. 1-16, 18 (typesetting of Hamelin’s handwritten edition incorporating corrections; resetting of Jarvis’s typeset edition of no. 17) Simon Abrahams: nos. 19 and 21 (typeset) Jonathan Powell: nos. 73 and 84 (typeset) Alexander Abercrombie: nos. 20, 22-72, 74-83, 85-100 (typeset; including resetting of the etudes done by Powell)	864
Abercrombie, Alexander	2007	Quintet II for Piano and String Quartet (1932-33; 432 pp.)	459
Abercrombie, Alexander	2008	Sequentia cyclica super “Dies irae” ex Missa pro defunctis (1948-49; 335 pp.)	377
Abercrombie, Alexander	2009	Sonata V (Opus archimagicum) (1934-35; 336 pp.)	432
Abercrombie, Alexander	2014	Fourth Symphony for Piano Alone (1962-64; 240 pp.)	232
Abrahams, Simon	2001	Movement for Voice and Piano (1927, 1931; 9 pp.)	16
Abrahams, Simon	2002	Apparition (1916; 5 pp.)	6
Abrahams, Simon	2004	Sonata IV for Piano (1928-29; 111 pp.)	129
Abrahams, Simon	2007	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.): nos. 19, 21 (incorporated into the complete edition)
Abrahams, Simon	2008	Villa Tasca: Mezzogiorno siciliano—Evocazione nostalgica e memoria tanta cara e preziosa del giardino meraviglioso, splendido, tropicale (1979-80; 47 pp.)	47
Abrahams, Simon	2010	Symphonia brevis for Piano (1973; 120 pp.)	113
Amato, Donna	1992•	Toccatinetta sopra C.G.F. (1929; 8 pp.)•	15
Amato, Donna	1993•	Passeggiata arlecchinesca sopra un frammento di Busoni (“Rondò arlecchinesco”) (1981-82; 16 pp.)•	30
Amato, Donna, and Chris Rice	1993	Fantaisie espagnole (1919; 23 pp.) {corrected edition of the publication}
Amato, Donna, and Chris Rice	1993	Valse-fantaisie for Piano (1925; 16 pp.) {corrected edition of the publication}
Bowyer, Kevin	1988•	Symphony [no. 1] for Organ (1924; 81 pp.) {corrected edition of the publication}
Bowyer, Kevin	1991•	Second Symphony for Organ (1929-32; 350 pp.)•	396
Bowyer, Kevin	2013•	Symphony [no. 1] for Organ (1924; 81 pp.)	92
Bowyer, Kevin	2014•	Second Symphony for Organ (1929-32; 350 pp.)	309
Bowyer, Kevin	2014	Third Organ Symphony (1949-53; 305 pp.)	309
Burton-Page, Anthony	1989•	Fantasiettina atematica (1981; 2 pp.)•	4
Fabre, François	2017	Messa grande sinfonica (1955-61; 1,001 pp.)	1001
Garvelmann, Donald M.	1969•	Pastiche on the “Minute Waltz” by Chopin (1922; 7 pp.) {published by Music Treasure Publications, Garvelmann’s own imprint}	16
Hamelin, Marc-André	1989•	Suggested Bell-Chorale for St. Luke’s Carillon (1961; 1 p.)•	1
Hamelin, Marc-André	1992•	L’heure exquise (1916; 2 pp.)•	4
Hamelin, Marc-André	1994	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.): nos. 1-18• (incorporated into the complete edition after resetting by Lukas Huisman and Frazer Jarvis)	121
Hamelin, Marc-André	1994•	“Gulistān”—Nocturne for Piano (1940; 28 pp.)•	54
Hinton, Alistair	1988•	Trois poèmes (1941; 13 pp.)•	18
Hopkins, Charles	1994•	Nocturne, “Jāmī” (1928; 28 pp.)•	70
Huisman, Lukas	2008•	Frammenti aforistici (4) (1977; 1 p.)	1
Huisman, Lukas	2007	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.): nos. 1-16, 18 (typesetting of Hamelin’s handwritten edition incorporating corrections; resetting of Jarvis’s typeset edition of no. 17; incorporated into the complete edition)
Huisman, Lukas	2013•	Fragment: Prelude and Fugue on FxAxx DAxEx (1926; 3 pp.)	2
Huisman, Lukas	2013•	Frammenti aforistici (4) (1977; 1 p.)	1
Huisman, Lukas	2016	Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone (1977-78; 113 pp.)	85
Jarvis, Frazer	2005	Rapsodie espagnole de Maurice Ravel—Transcription de concert pour piano (first version, 1923; 16 pp.)	30
Jarvis, Frazer	2005	Désir éperdu — Fragment (1917; 1 p.)	1
Jarvis, Frazer	2005•	Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra “La morte d’Åse” da Grieg (1974; 2 pp.)	2
Jarvis, Frazer	2007	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.): no. 17 (typesetting of Hamelin’s handwritten edition; incorporated into the complete edition after resetting by Lukas Huisman)
Jarvis, Frazer	2013•	Due sutras sul nome dell’amico Alexis (1981, 1984; 2 pp.)	2
Jarvis, Frazer	2013	Chaleur—Poème (1916-17; 32 pp.)	20
Jarvis, Frazer	2013•	Toccatinetta sopra C.G.F. (1929; 8 pp.)	10
Jarvis, Frazer	2013•	“Quaere reliqua hujus materiei inter secretiora” (1940; 16 pp.)	22
Jarvis, Frazer	2014	Opusculum for Orchestra (1923; 36 pp.)	31
Jarvis, Frazer	2015	Sonata no. 0 for Piano (1917; 30 pp.)	40
Jarvis, Frazer	2022	Symphonic Variations for Piano (1935-37; 484 pp.)	693
Jarvis, Frazer, and Jason Acuña	2005	Rapsodie espagnole de Maurice Ravel—Transcription de concert pour piano (second version, 1945; 26 pp.)	33
Lee, R. D. [Ramer Davey]	2019•	Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.)	16
Lee, R. D. [Ramer Davey]	2021•	Sonata III for Piano (1922; 75 pp.)	78
Margiotta, Maria Rosaria	1999•	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.) {Etude no. 99 published as part of the author’s master’s thesis “Sorabji: A History of the First Publishers and an Edition (Transcendental Study no. 99)”.}	53
Miller, Elma	1980•	Il tessuto d’arabeschi (1979; 32 pp.)• {unpublished parts prepared in 1981 for the first performance in Philadelphia in 1982}
Powell, Jonathan	2002	Passeggiata veneziana sopra la Barcarola di Offenbach (1955-56; 24 pp.)	24
Powell, Jonathan	2002	Roses du soir (1915; 4 pp.)	3
Powell, Jonathan	2002	Fantasia ispanica (1933; 54 pp.)	64
Powell, Jonathan	2002	Rosario d’arabeschi (1956; 45 pp.)	43
Powell, Jonathan	2002	Un nido di scatole sopra il nome del grande e buon amico Harold Rutland (1954; 26 pp.)	26
Powell, Jonathan	2004•	Nocturne, “Jāmī” (1928; 28 pp.)	26
Powell, Jonathan (with Alexander Abercrombie, Richard Younger, and François Fabre)	2004	Concerto da suonare da me solo e senza orchestra, per divertirmi (1946; 70 pp.)	72
Powell, Jonathan	2007	Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.): nos. 73, 84 (incorporated into the complete edition)
Powell, Jonathan	2007	Schlussszene aus “Salome” von Richard Strauss—Konzertmäßige Übertragung für Klavier zu zwei Händen (1947; 25 pp.)	35
Powell, Jonathan (with Alexander Abercrombie)	2012	Sixth Symphony for Piano (Symphonia claviensis) (1975-76; 270 pp.)	270
Powell, Jonathan	2012•	“Gulistān”—Nocturne for Piano (1940; 28 pp.)	28
Powell, Jonathan	2014	Le jardin parfumé: Poem for Piano Solo (1923; 16 pp.) {This is the first time a work published by Sorabji during his lifetime is engraved anew.}	21
Powell, Jonathan	2014•	St. Bertrand de Comminges: “He was laughing in the tower” (1941; 16 pp.)	17
Powell, Jonathan	2020	Concerto per pianoforte e piccola orchestra, “Simorg-Anka” [no. 7] (1924; 100 pp.)	118
Rapoport, Paul	1980•	Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (1923; 40 pp.)• {parts prepared in 1980 for the first performance in Toronto}
Rice, Chris	1991•	Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra “La morte d’Åse” da Grieg (1974; 2 pp.)•	2
Rice, Chris	1992•	Due sutras sul nome dell’amico Alexis (1981, 1984; 2 pp.)•	3
Rice, Chris	1992•	St. Bertrand de Comminges: “He was laughing in the tower” (1941; 16 pp.)•	42
Rice, Chris	1993•	“Quaere reliqua hujus materiei inter secretiora” (1940; 16 pp.)•	32
Roberge, Marc-André	1992	Quasi habanera (1917; 6 pp.)	9
Roberge, Marc-André	1992	Transcription of the Prelude in E-flat by Bach (1945; 4 pp.)	6
Roberge, Marc-André	1992	Pastiche on the Hindu Merchant’s Song from “Sadko” by Rimsky-Korsakov (1922; 4 pp.)	5
Roberge, Marc-André	1992	Pastiche on the Habanera from “Carmen” by Bizet (1922; 6 pp.)	11
Roberge, Marc-André	1993	Fragment Written for Harold Rutland (1926, 1928, 1937; 2 pp.) {All three versions}	14
Roberge, Marc-André	1993	Transcription in the Light of Harpsichord Technique for the Modern Piano of the Chromatic Fantasia of J. S. Bach, Followed by a Fugue (1940; 15 pp.)	29
Roberge, Marc-André	1993	L’irrémediable (1927; 8 pp.)	11
Roberge, Marc-André	1994	Pasticcio capriccioso sopra l’op. 64, no 1 del Chopin (1933; 8 pp.)	17
Roberge, Marc-André	2004•	Suggested Bell-Chorale for St. Luke’s Carillon (1961; 1 p.)	2
Roberge, Marc-André	2004	Concertino non grosso for String Sextet with Piano Obbligato quasi continuo (1968; 48 pp.)	108
Roberge, Marc-André	2004•	Il tessuto d’arabeschi (1979; 32 pp.) {includes parts}	38
Roberge, Marc-André	2004•	Fantasiettina atematica (1981; 2 pp.) {includes parts; second edition in 2021}	5
Roberge, Marc-André	2005•	Pastiche on the “Minute Waltz” by Chopin (1922; 1922; 7 pp.)	17
Roberge, Marc-André	2005•	Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (1923; 40 pp.) {includes parts; second edition in 2022}	66
Roberge, Marc-André	2006•	L’heure exquise (1916; 2 pp.)	4
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	I Was Not Sorrowful—Poem for Voice and Piano [Spleen] (between 1917 and 1919; 3 pp.) {second edition in 2024}	4
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	Le mauvais jardinier (1918 or 1919; compl. Chappell Kingsland, 2023; 5 pp.) {second edition in 2024, including a completion by Chappelll Kingsland}	5
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	Arabesque (1920; 2 pp.)	2
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	Hymne à Aphrodite (1916; 5 pp.)	11
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	Chrysilla (1915; 4 pp.)	7
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	Vocalise pour soprano fioriturata (1916; 3 pp.)	5
Roberge, Marc-André	2006	L’étang (1917; 2 pp.)	5
Roberge, Marc-André	2007•	Trois poèmes (1941; 13 pp.) {second edition in 2021}	22
Roberge, Marc-André	2007	Frammento cantato (1967; 1 p.)	2
Roberge, Marc-André	2008	Music to “The Rider by Night” (1919; 54 pp.)	38
Roberge, Marc-André	2013	Passeggiata variata sul nome del caro e gentile amico Clive Spencer-Bentley (1981; 3 pp.)	7
Roberge, Marc-André	2013	Benedizione di San Francesco d’Assisi (1973; 2 pp.)	4
Sánchez-Aguilera, Abel	2015	Tāntrik Symphony for Piano Alone (1938-39; 284 pp.)	447
Sánchez-Aguilera, Abel	2016	Third Symphony for Piano Solo (1959-60; 144 pp.)	197
Sánchez-Aguilera, Abel (and Alexander Abercrombie)	2019	Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.)	462
Sánchez-Aguilera, Abel	2021	Toccata terza (1955; 91 p.)	127
Smetryns, Thomas, and Lukas Huisman	2007	Frammenti aforistici (Sutras) (104) (1962-64; 37 pp.)	46
Smetryns, Thomas, and Lukas Huisman	2007	Opus secretum atque necromanticum (1980-81; 48 pp.)	48
Steininger, Florian	2012	Frammenti aforistici (20) (1964; 9 pp.)	9
Stevenson, Ronald	1987	Fantasiettina sul nome illustre dell’egregio poeta Christopher Grieve ossia Hugh M’Diarmid (1961; 10 pp.) {set by Barry Peter Ould and published by his publishing house, Bardic Edition}	7
Vignani, Alberto	2014	Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1935-37, 1953-56; 540 pp.)	519
Visser, Pieter	2003	Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [no. 5] [publ. as Concerto II] (1920; 144 pp.) {parts for the first performance in Utrecht}
William A.P.M [William Penafiel]	2021•	Sonata seconda for Piano (1920; 49 pp.)	49
William A.P.M. [William Penafiel]	2024•	Passeggiata arlecchinesca sopra un frammento di Busoni (“Rondò arlecchinesco”) (1981-82; 16 pp.)•	15
Wolfson, David	1991	Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī (1926, rev. 1930; 16 pp.)	25
Younger, Richard	2004•	Fragment: Prelude and Fugue on FxAxx DAxEx (1926; 3 pp.)	2
Younger, Richard	2007	Toccata [no. 1] for Piano (1928; 66 pp.)	85