Chronological List of Works with KSS Numbers and Years of Publication
This page lists Sorabji’s works in the chronological order used in the “Catalogue of Works” in Opus sorabjianum , which is derived from the corresponding section in SCC, 93-192, with some reordering to take into account post-1992 research and discoveries.
KSS: Numbers assigned by the Sorabji Archive in its List of Compositions of Sorabji’s works. The differences in the sequence of numbers results from that list having been created in the very early stages of research when the Archive was founded. No numbers were assigned to works then known only by references in the correspondence or other archival documents. It nevertheless did take into account Toccata terza (1955; 91 pp.), included owing to the likelihood of its turning up eventually, which it finally did in September 2019. These works have a dash (—) in place of the numbers.
The works published between 1921 and 1931 under the composer’s supervision included at the bottom-centre a number preceded by the composer’s initials, e.g., K. S. 16. They were were assigned to all such works except Sonata no. 1 for Piano (1919; 42 pp.) and Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.), which would have been K.S.2 and K.S.3. These numbers were skipped when the moment came to assign one to the Fantaisie espagnole (1919; 23 pp.), which therefore was identified with K.S.4. A full list is given in SCC, 104. Several modern editions published by the Sorabji Archive have the same footer on the first page of music, using the number in column KSS, for instance K.S.S. 63.
Title: Normalized titles as given in Opus sorabjianum and on the Sorabji Resource Site. These titles are different from those proposed by the Sorabji Archive, especially in matters of capitalization.
Category: Number used to group the works under one of nine headings, plus three subdivided into two, marked a and b, for a total of twelve, in the “Short Catalog” found in SCC, 175-79.
- 1 Piano solo
- 2 Organ solo
- 3 Piano and orchestra
- 4a Orchestra without voices
- 4b Orchestra with voices
- 5a Chamber ensemble without voices
- 5b Chamber ensemble with voice(s)
- 6a Voice and piano
- 6b Voice and organ
- 7 Carillon
- 8 (Piano) transcriptions
- 9 Unknown
Publication: Year of publication of the latest edition, with data about previous editions given under Comments. A dash (—) is used for works whose eventual publication is highly unlikely, if not totally impossible. Entries are blank when no (new) edition is known to be in progress.
Comments: Basic information about previous editions, and indication of “edition project reserved” when known (see below).
The Sorabji Archive’s website has a table entitled Progress in Sorabji editing, performing and recording, showing the number of pages edited, performed, and recorded. Some information on edition projects has been given by Alistair Hinton on the Sorabji Forum in posts of 29 March 2014, 27 November 2017, 25 March 2019, and 14 May 2020. It is imperative to contact the Sorabji Archive to discuss one’s intention of contributing an edition and receive approval before embarking on the task of entering notes, as an edition may already be in progress without having been announced as underway.
In the list below, editions known to be in progress have a publication date of 2999 for sorting purposes. See also page Current or Recent Research.
Click on a column heading to sort, then shift-click on other headings to sort on multiple columns.
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| KSS | Title | Category | Publication | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KSS | Title | Category | Publication | Comments |
| — | Transcription of “In a Summer Garden” (1914; 0 p.) | 7 | — | |
| 1 | The Poplars (1915; 3 pp.) | 6a | 2999 | Completed in 2007 but temporarily withheld |
| 2 | Chrysilla (1915; 4 pp.) | 6a | 2007 | |
| 3 | Roses du soir (1915; 4 pp.) | 6a | 2002 | |
| 4 | L’heure exquise (1916; 2 pp.) | 6a | 2006 | First edition, 1996. |
| 5 | Vocalise pour soprano fioriturata (1916; 3 pp.) | 6a | 2006 | |
| 6 | Concerto [no. 1] pour piano et grand orchestre (1915-16; 177 pp.) | 3 | ||
| — | Vocalise no. 2 (1916; 0 p.) | 6a | — | |
| — | Medea (1916; 0 p.) | 4b | — | |
| 7 | Apparition (1916; 5 pp.) | 6a | 2001 | |
| 8 | Hymne à Aphrodite (1916; 5 pp.) | 6a | 2006 | |
| 9 | Sonata no. 0 for Piano (1917; 30 pp.) | 1 | 2015 | |
| 15 | Chaleur—Poème (1916-17; 32 pp.) | 4a | 2013 | |
| 12 | Quasi habanera (1917; 6 pp.) | 1 | 1992 | |
| 10 | L’étang (1917; 2 pp.) | 6a | 2006 | |
| 13 | Désir éperdu (Fragment) (1917; 1 p.) | 1 | 2005 | |
| 14 | Concerto II pour piano et grand orchestre (1916-17; 49 pp.) | 3 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 16 | Concerto pour piano et orchestra da camera [no. 3] (1918; 100 pp.) | 3 | ||
| 18 | Concerto pour piano et grand orchestre [no. 4] (1918; 100 pp.) | 3 | ||
| 11 | I Was Not Sorrowful—Poem for Voice and Piano [Spleen] (between 1917 and 1919; 3 pp.) | 6a | 2006 | |
| 11a | Le mauvais jardinier (1919; 1 p.) | 6a | 2006 | |
| 37 | Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine (ca. 1919; 11 pp.) | 6a | 1924 | |
| 19 | Fantaisie espagnole (1919; 23 pp.) | 1 | 1922 | |
| 20 | Sonata no. 1 for Piano (1919; 42 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress (first edition, 1921) |
| 21 | Trois poèmes pour chant et piano (1918, 1919; 9 pp.) | 6a | 2999 | Edition in progress (first edition, 1921). |
| 22 | Music to “The Rider by Night” (1919; 54 pp.) | 5b | 2008 | |
| 24 | Arabesque (1920; 2 pp.) | 6a | 2006 | |
| 17, 23 | Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.) {different numbers were assigned to the two pieces (“In the Hothouse”, “Toccata”)} | 1 | 2019 | First edition, 1921. |
| 27 | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [no. 5] (1920; 144 pp.) | 3 | 1923 | |
| 26 | Quintet no. 1 for Piano and Quartet of Stringed Instruments (1919-20; 72 pp.) | 5a | 2999 | Edition in progress (first edition, 1923) |
| 28 | Sonata seconda for Piano (1920; 49 pp.) | 1 | 1923 | New edition in progress |
| 29 | Sonata III for Piano (1922; 75 pp.) | 1 | 1924 | |
| 30 | Symphony [no. 1] for Piano, Large Orchestra, Chorus, and Organ (1921-22; 300 pp.) | 4b | ||
| — | Black Mass (1922; 0 p.) | 4b | — | |
| 31 | Three Pastiches for Piano (1922; 17 pp.) | 8 | 2014 |
Edition by Donald Garvelmann (Chopin), 1969. First separate editions, 1992 (Bizet, Rimsky-Korsakov), 2005 (Chopin). |
| 25 | Prelude, Interlude, and Fugue for Piano (1920, 1922; 17 pp.) | 1 | 1924 | |
| 32 | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [no.] III [no. 6] (1922; 144 pp.) | 3 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 34 | Opusculum for Orchestra (1923; 36 pp.) | 4a | 2014 | |
| 35 | Le jardin parfumé: Poem for Piano Solo (1923; 16 pp.) | 1 | 2014 | Original edition, 1927. |
| 33 | Rapsodie espagnole de Maurice Ravel—Transcription de concert pour piano (first version, 1923; 16 pp.) | 8 | 2005 | |
| 36 | Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (1923; 40 pp.) | 5b | 2005 | |
| 38 | Concerto per pianoforte e piccola orchestra, “Simorg-Anka” [no. 7] (1924; 100 pp.) | 3 | 2020 | |
| 39 | Symphony [no. 1] for Organ (1924; 81 pp.) | 2 | 2013 | Original edition, 1925; corrected edition, 1988. |
| 40 | Valse-fantaisie for Piano (1925; 16 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress (first edition, 1927) |
| 41 | Variazioni e fuga triplice sopra “Dies irae” per pianoforte (1923-26; 201 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 41a | Fragment: Prelude and Fugue on FxAxx DAxEx (1926; 3 pp.) | 1 | 2013 | |
| 42 | Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī (1926, rev. 1930; 16 pp.) | 6a | 1991 | |
| 44 | L’irrémédiable (1927; 8 pp.) | 6a | 1993 | |
| 45 | Concerto V for Piano and Large Orchestra [no. 8] (1927-28; 344 pp.) | 3 | ||
| 46 | Toccata [no. 1] for Piano (1928; 66 pp.) | 1 | 2001 | |
| 47 | Nocturne, “Jāmī” (1928; 28 pp.) | 1 | 2004 | |
| 48 | Sonata IV for Piano (1928-29; 111 pp.) | 1 | 2004 | |
| 49 | Toccatinetta sopra C.G.F. (1929; 8 pp.) | 1 | 2013 | First edition, 1992. |
| 48a | Introduction, Passacaglia, Cadenza, and Fugue (1929; compl. Alexander Abercrombie, 2004; 79 pp.) | 1 | 2005 | |
| — | Music for “Faust” (ca. 1930; 0 p.) | 9 | — | |
| 50 | Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30; 253 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress (first edition, 1931) |
| 51 | Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.) | 1 | 2019 | |
| 52 | Movement for Voice and Piano (1927, 1931; 9 pp.) | 6a | 2001 | |
| 53 | Second Symphony for Organ (1929-32; 350 pp.) | 2 | 2014 | First edition, 1991. |
| 54 | Quintet II for Piano and String Quartet (1932-33; 432 pp.) | 5a | 2007 | |
| 55 | Fantasia ispanica (1933; 54 pp.) | 1 | 2002 | |
| 56 | Pasticcio capriccioso sopra l’op. 64, no 1 del Chopin (1933; 8 pp.) | 8 | 1994 | |
| 57 | Toccata seconda per pianoforte (1933-34; 111 pp.) | 1 | 2004 | |
| 58 | Sonata V (Opus archimagicum) (1934-35; 336 pp.) | 1 | 2009 | |
| 43 | Fragment Written for Harold Rutland (1926, 1928, 1937; 2 pp.) | 1 | 1993 | |
| 59 | Symphonic Variations for Piano (1935-37; 484 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 60 | Tāntrik Symphony for Piano Alone (1938-39; 284 pp.) | 1 | 2015 | |
| 61 | 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.) | 8 | 1993 | |
| 62 | “Quaere reliqua hujus materiei inter secretiora” (1940; 16 pp.) | 1 | 2014 | First edition, 1993. |
| 63 | “Gulistān”—Nocturne for Piano (1940; 28 pp.) | 1 | 2012 | |
| 64 | St. Bertrand de Comminges: “He was laughing in the tower” (1941; 16 pp.) | 1 | 2014 | First edition, 1992. |
| 65 | Trois poèmes (1941; 13 pp.) | 6a | 2007 | First edition, 1988. |
| 66 | Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.) | 1 | 2007 | |
| 67 | Rapsodie espagnole de Maurice Ravel—Transcription de concert pour piano (second version, 1945; 26 pp.) | 8 | 2005 | |
| 68 | Transcription of the Prelude in E-flat by Bach (1945; 4 pp.) | 8 | 1992 | |
| 69 | Concerto da suonare da me solo e senza orchestra, per divertirmi (1946; 70 pp.) | 1 | 2004 | |
| 70 | Schlussszene aus “Salome” von Richard Strauss—Konzertmäßige Übertragung für Klavier zu zwei Händen (1947; 25 pp.) | 8 | 2007 | |
| 71 | Sequentia cyclica super “Dies irae” ex Missa pro defunctis (1948-49; 335 pp.) | 1 | 2008 | |
| 72 | Symphony [no. 2], “Jāmī”, for Large Orchestra, Wordless Chorus, and Baritone Solo (1942-51; 826 pp.) | 4b | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| — | Le agonie (1951; 0 p.) | 1 | — | |
| 73 | Third Organ Symphony (1949-53; 305 pp.) | 2 | 2014 | |
| 74 | Un nido di scatole sopra il nome del grande e buon amico Harold Rutland (1954; 26 pp.) | 1 | 2002 | |
| 75 | Second Symphony for Piano (1954; 248 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 76 | Toccata terza (1955; 91 pp.) | 1 | 2021 | |
| 77 | Passeggiata veneziana sopra la Barcarola di Offenbach (1955-56; 24 pp.) | 1 | 2002 | |
| 78 | Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1935-37, 1953-56; 540 pp.) | 3 | 2014 | |
| 79 | Rosario d’arabeschi (1956; 45 pp.) | 1 | 2002 | |
| 80 | Opus clavisymphonicum—Concerto for Piano and Large Orchestra for Piano and Large Orchestra (1957-59; 333 pp.) | 3 | ||
| 81 | Third Symphony for Piano Solo (1959-60; 144 pp.) | 1 | 2016 | |
| 82 | Suggested Bell-Chorale for St. Luke’s Carillon (1961; 1 p.) | 7 | 2004 | |
| 83 | Fantasiettina sul nome illustre dell’egregio poeta Christopher Grieve ossia Hugh M’Diarmid (1961; 10 pp.) | 1 | 1981 | |
| 84 | Messa grande sinfonica (1955-61; 1,001 pp.) | 4b | 2017 | |
| 85 | Fourth Symphony for Piano Alone (1962-64; 240 pp.) | 1 | 2014 | |
| 86 | Frammenti aforistici (20) (1964; 9 pp.) | 1 | 2012 | |
| 90 | Frammenti aforistici (Sutras) (104) (1962-64; 37 pp.) | 1 | 2007 | |
| 87 | Toccata quarta (1964-67; 149 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 88 | Frammento cantato (1967; 1 p.) | 6a | 2007 | |
| 89 | Concertino non grosso for String Sextet with Piano obbligato quasi continuo (1968; 48 pp.) | 5a | 2004 | |
| 91 | Benedizione di San Francesco d’Assisi (1973; 2 pp.) | 6b | 2013 | |
| 92 | Symphonia brevis for Piano (1973; 120 pp.) | 1 | 2010 | |
| 93 | Variazione maliziosa e perversa sopra “La morte d’Åse” da Grieg (1974; 2 pp.) | 1 | 2005 | |
| 94 | Opusculum clavisymphonicum vel claviorchestrale (1973-75; 334 pp.) | 3 | 2999 | Edition in progress |
| 95 | Sixth Symphony for Piano (Symphonia claviensis) (1975-76; 270 pp.) | 1 | 2012 | |
| 96 | Frammenti aforistici (4) (1977; 1 p.) | 1 | 2013 | |
| 97 | Symphonic Nocturne for Piano Alone (1977-78; 113 pp.) | 1 | 2016 | |
| 98 | “Il gallo d’oro” da Rimsky-Korsakov: Variazioni frivole con una fuga anarchica, eretica e perversa (1978-79; 93 pp.) | 1 | 2004 | |
| 99 | Il tessuto d’arabeschi (1979; 32 pp.) | 5a | 2004 | |
| 100 | Villa Tasca: Mezzogiorno siciliano—Evocazione nostalgica e memoria tanta cara e preziosa del giardino meraviglioso, splendido, tropicale (1979-80; 47 pp.) | 1 | 2008 | |
| 101 | Opus secretum atque necromanticum (1980-81; 48 pp.) | 1 | 2007 | |
| 102 | Passeggiata variata sul nome del caro e gentile giovane amico Clive Spencer-Bentley (1981; 3 pp.) | 1 | 2013 | |
| 103 | Fantasiettina atematica (1981; 2 pp.) | 5a | 2005 | |
| 105 | Passeggiata arlecchinesca sopra un frammento di Busoni (“Rondò arlecchinesco”) (1981-82; 16 pp.) | 1 | 2999 | Edition in progress (first edition, 1993) |
| 104 | Due sutras sul nome dell’amico Alexis (1981, 1984; 2 pp.) | 1 | 2013 | First edition, 1992. |
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