Version History of Opus sorabjianum

2023

2023-06-27: Release of version 4.00. This full-point update follows a complete stylistic and grammatical revision of both the book and the Sorabji Resource Site that left hardly a paragraph untouched, especially in matters of word choice (especially prepositions) and order of elements. As usual, there are many minor changes, clarifications, and additions, the most important of which are listed below. Since the previous release (version 3.00, 21 May 2021), the book has grown by 3,231 words and 33 footnotes, while the number of text pages has increased from 647 to 659.

• Acknowledgements: Reformatted two long lists of names into columns.
• Introduction: Identified Sorabji’s preferred writing instruments, at least in his later years, as Montblanc pens and Pelikan’s Fount India ink.
• Chaps. 8, 12: Revised the sections on the Pastiche on the “Minute Waltz” by Chopin (1922; 7 pp.) and Pasticcio capriccioso sopra l’op. 64, no 1 del Chopin (1933; 8 pp.).
• Chap. 12: Revised the analysis of the Sonata V (Opus archimagicum) (1934-35; 336 pp.), especially of its pars tertia et ultima.
• Chap. 17: Revised the paragraph on the taxi driver Reginald Crabb to include Sorabji’s hiring of Ronald Stuart Venning.
• Chap. 23: Revised the section on Geni Sadero’s melody in the discussion of Villa Tasca: Mezzogiorno siciliano—​Evocazione nostalgica e memoria tanta cara e preziosa del giardino meraviglioso, splendido, tropicale (1979-80; 47 pp.), and the paragraph on Mera Sett thanks to additional information provided by Rob Forrest.
• Catalogue: Added details of recent editions and performances.
• Passim:
  • Applied the use of definite articles, when appropriate, before generic and mixed titles of all works mentioned (also throughout the entire Sorabji Resource Site); see the relevant explanation.
  • Updated the thirty instances of the current value of money to 2021 (latest available data).
  • Changed the spelling of the names of two Russian composers to Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin.

2022

No new version was published in 2022.

2021

2021-05-21: Release of version 3.00. This full-point update, the most significant in the book’s history, is the result of an extensive revision that has resulted in some 300 modifications and additional quotations (expressions, sentences, paragraphs) based on a fresh reading of Sorabji’s correspondence. The letters to Erik Chisholm account for half of the changes. This re-examination of the sources has yielded new evidence, revisions both minor and major, corrections of all kinds, and additional references documenting Sorabji’s attitude to the world around him. Several sections have been radically expanded, rewritten, rearranged, or revised. The update also corrects dozens of minor infelicities, most of which are visible only to the discerning eyes. Finally, the book has undergone a thorough stylistic revision, mainly to break up long sentences into shorter ones and to favour the active voice whenever possible. Since the previous release (version 2.0, 31 July 2020), the book has grown by 34,117 words and 359 footnotes, while the number of pages has increased from 597 to 647. For comparison, the average increase for the previous versions was 1,750 words. The most significant changes beyond those resulting from the new reading of the correspondence are listed below.

• Chap. 1: Added a reference that Sorabji’s father was buried in the Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the “London Necropolis”.
• Chap. 2: Established the dates for Charles Abraham Trew and confirmed his status as a music professor; added a reference that Sorabji may have studied at the Hampstead Conservatoire; established Sorabji’s tutor was a woman named Ludmille Osterreid.
• Chap. 5: Identified two places where Sorabji and his mother lived and the names of two domestic servants.
• Chap. 9: Rewrote the circumstances of the first performance of the Sonata IV for Piano (1928-29; 111 pp.); revised the presentation and layout of the section on the Variazioni e fuga triplice sopra “Dies irae” per pianoforte (1923-26; 201 pp.).
• Chap. 10: Identified Willa Muir as the author of a previously anonymous review of the score of Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30; 253 pp.).
• Chaps. 10 and 12: Revised, reordered, and expanded the sections on Erik Chisholm and Bernard Bromage.
• Chap. 11: Substantially expanded the section on the Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.).
• Chap. 12: Revised the section on the Pasticcio capriccioso sopra l’op. 64, no 1 del Chopin (1933; 8 pp.); revised the analytical presentation of the Sonata V (Opus archimagicum) (1934-35; 336 pp.), especially of the “Preludio-corale”.
• Chap. 14: Considerably expanded the section on Sorabji’s literary interests and ideas on society and politics; revised the genesis of the Tāntrik Symphony for Piano Alone (1938-39; 284 pp.) and added a discussion of its fugue subjects.
• Chap. 15: Revised the section on Joy McArden and her husband H. James Cooper, for whom years of birth and death are now provided.
• Chap. 16: Added a lengthy paragraph describing the group of fugues from the last of the Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.); added an account of Sorabji’s attitude to the war.
• Chap. 17: Added more data on Reginald Norman Best’s family.
• Chap. 19: Revised and expanded the material on George Richards and his wife.
• Chap. 20: Expanded the section on Sorabji’s habit of giving advice to his friends on food matters; added sections on Sorabji’s attitude to Renaissance polyphony and folk music; used bold type to highlight the names of the composers discussed in section “Likes and Dislikes in Music”.
• Chap. 22: Reordered the presentation of “Il gallo d’oro” da Rimsky-Korsakov: Variazioni frivole con una fuga anarchica, eretica e perversa (1978-79; 93 pp.).

2020

2020-07-31: Release of version 2.00. The decision to move directly from 1.18 to 2.00 stems from the extent of the revisions and changes to both content and typography (though many are not necessarily visible). This revision owes much to the generous contribution of Jakub Eisenbruk (known as “Toccata” on the Sorabji Forum), who sent me a detailed list of typos, factual issues, questions, and suggestions. We have been in frequent contact over the past two months and have discussed several of the points at issue, resulting in many improvements and clarifications in the book as well as corrections to several minor points on the Sorabji Resource Site, including the creation of three new pages. Since the previous release (version 1.18, 21 October 2019), the book has grown by 4,016 words and 40 footnotes, while the number of pages is now 597 instead of 589. The most significant changes are listed below.

• Copyright page: Provided a new, expanded notice.
• Preface: Revised section “Internet Edition and Printing Instructions”.
• Chap. 9: Revised and expanded the section on the Trois poèmes du “Gulistān” de Saʿdī (1926, rev. 1930; 16 pp.) with a presentation of the differences between the two manuscripts. Moved and expanded elements of the context of Sorabji’s first Glasgow performance from chapter 10 to chapter 9 and established its date as 1 April 1930 and that it was given as the “Fourth Recital of National Music” rather than organized by the Active Society for the Propagation of Contemporary Music.
• Chap. 11: Established possible publication dates for two articles published in the Evening News of India; added a note on the Irish violinist, singer, and theosophist Maud MacCarthy (1882-1967) and a possible interest of Sorabji in puppets; provided data on the publisher of the book Art and Thought, to which Sorabji contributed a chapter.
• Chap. 12: Substantially revised the presentation of the Toccata seconda per pianoforte (1933-34; 111 pp.) and revised the presentation of Bernard Bromage with the recollections of the English socialist activist, writer, and artist Robert Barltrop (1922-2009), a student at Sir George Monoux College when Bromage taught there.
• Chap. 16: Revised and expanded the presentation of the Sequentia cyclica super “Dies irae” ex Missa pro defunctis (1948-49; 335 pp.) with additional quotations.
• Chap. 19: Added a long quotation from a letter to Erik Chisholm on the Messa grande sinfonica (1955-61; 1,001 pp.).
• Catalogue:
  • Added the “KSS” numbers used on the Sorabji Archive’s website for each work below the “Title” heading.
  • New editions are now considered to be typeset unless otherwise noted.
  • Revised the durations for the unperformed works in accordance with the Sorabji Archive’s brochure.
  • Added several notes in the “Comments” section to report about differences or updates to the data presented in SCC, based on new findings. Detailed comments are provided for the Concerto [no. 1] pour piano et grand orchestre (1915-16; 177 pp.) and “Il gallo d’oro” da Rimsky-Korsakov: Variazioni frivole con una fuga anarchica, eretica e perversa (1978-79; 93 pp.).
• Discography: Added the recent recordings by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera and Jonathan Powell and provided number of pages and notes for all liner notes.
• Examples: Made minor revisions to eleven musical examples (4.1, 4.4, 6.2, 9.1, 14.2, 15.2, 15.3, 16.6, 21.4, 22.5, and 23) and updated the sound files.
• Passim:
  • Made minor modifications to five titles to change the character used to separate title from subtitle (dash instead of colon) or the capitalization of a word or subtitle to offer closer matches to the forms used in SCC. The changes are documented on page Recent Modifications.
  • Gave letter number and page to the new edition of Sorabji’s letters to Philip Heseltine for all quotations of excerpts and references.
  • Updated the value of money to the latest available data (2019).
  • Slightly increased the top margin and added drop folios to the first pages of chapters; changed all running heads to include both the chapter number and the years discussed on each page.
  • Checked all external internet links and fixed eleven.
  • Deleted the angle brackets surrounding internet links in both notes and bibliography.
  • Replaced “MIDI realizations” and similar expressions by “sound files”.

2019

2019-10-21: Release of version 1.18. Since the previous release (version 1.17, 7 December 2018), the book has grown by 2,667 words and 21 footnotes, while the number of pages has now increased from 583 to 589. This is one of the most extensive updates in the book’s history, due to the discovery of a previously unknown piano part for the Symphony [no. 1] for Piano, Large Orchestra, Chorus, and Organ (1921-22; 300 pp.) and of the Toccata terza (1955; 91 p.), long thought to be lost. As usual, the update contains many minor modifications and improvements in most chapters. More substantial changes are:

• Introd.: Added an explanation about Sorabji’s erroneous use of “punta d’organo (costanziata)” and added notes to this effect in chapters 9, 11, 12, 17, 18, 20, and 21.
• Chaps. 8, 22: Expanded the paragraphs about Sorabji’s reception of the music of Rimsky-Korsakov.
• Chap. 12: Revised the paragraph on the final movement of the Toccata seconda per pianoforte (1933-34; 111 pp.).
• Chap. 18: Revised the entire section on the Toccata terza (1955; 91 p.) (moved from chapter 14) and added three paragraphs of analytical presentation (the corresponding sound file has been added to the zip file). The discovery of this manuscript also led to minor modifications in several chapters.
• Catalogue: Added a detailed description of the recently discovered piano part for the Symphony [no. 1] for Piano, Large Orchestra, Chorus, and Organ (1921-22; 300 pp.) and corrected the entry for the Toccata terza (1955; 91 p.); added durations for the nine movements of the Toccata seconda per pianoforte (1933-34; 111 pp.) and data about the performance by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera; added publication data for Ramer Davey Lee’s edition of the Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.) and that of the Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.) by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera.
• Bibliography: Added citations for publications by Séamas de Barra (article), Fang-Yi Chu (DMA dissertation), Brian Inglis (conference paper and edition of letters, the latter with Barry Smith), and Barry Smith (dissertation).
• Passim: Updated the thirty instances of the current value of money to the latest available data (2018).

2018

2018-12-07: Release of version 1.17. Since the previous release (version 1.16, 22 December 2017), the book has grown by 797 words and 5 footnotes, while the number of pages has remained the same at 583. This makes it one of the smallest updates in the book’s history. Nevertheless, there are important improvements, clarifications, and changes in some twenty-five places, as well as the addition of new titles in the bibliography. Highlights iinclude:

• Introduction: Added precisions about Busoni’s use of the Bösendorfer extended keyboard and a note on the presence of a high D lying outside the keyboard’s range in Scriabin’s Sonata no. 6.
• Chap. 2: Revised the paragraph about Sorabji’s composition teacher, whose name has been established as being Charles Abraham (rather than Arthur) Trew.
• Chap. 7: Expanded a note on Theodore Jenkins, the dedicatee of the Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.).
• Chap. 8: Added a note giving other possible years of birth and death for Richard Henry (Rex) Brittain, the dedicatee of the Prelude, Interlude, and Fugue for Piano (1920, 1922; 17 pp.).
• Chap. 11: Expanded the presentation of the critic Robert Lorenz (1891-1945) and added details for authors represented in the collective volume Art and Thought: Issued in Honour of Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, which includes a contribution by Sorabji.
• Bibliography: Added four citations and fixed minor problems and rewrote the citations for the privately printed brochures containing texts by Clinton Gray-Fisk and Frank Holliday.
• Passim: Updated the instances of the current value of money to the latest available data (2017).

2017

2017-12-22: Release of version 1.16. Since the previous release (version 1.15, 31 May 2017), the book has grown by 2,087 words and 16 footnotes, and the number of pages from 577 to 583. This represents an increase of over 24,000 words since the original publication on 14 August 2013. This is a very significant update, resulting from a reading of the entire book. The revision has led to some 300 substantive changes for clarifications or to add new evidence. It includes several minor rewrites and corrections of typographical or bibliographical errors, and adds many years of birth and death and years of composition as well as several “see chapter x” references. More substantial additions can be found in the following chapters:

• Preface: Completely revised the section on academic writings, citing recent articles by Andrew Mead and Lukas Huisman et al.
• Chapter 7: Revised an entire paragraph to include a reference to Sir Thomas Beecham and provide the date of the Hindemith concert in Edinburgh at which Donald Francis Tovey showed him the score of Sorabji’s published concerto.
• Chapter 8: Added an extensive footnote on names with the rare preposition à, as in the name of Sorabji’s friend Christopher à Becket Williams.
• Chapter 13: Expanded the account of John Tobin’s 1936 concert to include comments by Sorabji’s friend and dedicatee Edward Clarke Ashworth and identified three people who wrote to the New English Weekly in support of Sorabji: N. Dudley-Short, Douglas ffrench-Mullen, Cecil ffrench Salkeld. Also expanded on Sorabji’s attitude to the concert and Ernest Newman’s review of it based on their correspondence.
• Catalogue: Used indentation rather than bullets for complex entries to improve clarity, and revised the punctuation of entries.
• Bibliography: Added several citations, bringing the total number of publications to 720. Added DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) or stable URLs for all relevant publications for which they could be found, making it possible to reach the page for an article on the publisher’s website where it can be downloaded (subscription required).

2017-05-31: Release of version 1.15. Since the previous release (version 1.14, 4 August 2016), the book has grown by 565 words and 3 footnotes, which is much less than any previous update. There are about twenty relatively minor changes such as typos, minute precisions, addition of a missing year of death, etc. More substantial additions can be found in the following chapters:

• Preface: Added a note on my article “Opus sorabjianum: Les joies et les souffrances d’un biographe”, Intersections: Revue canadienne de musique, no. 35/1 (2015): 105-21, which details the history of my project for a biography of Sorabji.
• Chapter 6: Added a citation for Alastair Chisholm’s biographical article on Norman Peterkin in the booklet for the Lyrita recording of his songs. The recording and the booklet, which includes three photographs, are available from Naxos Music Library (subscription required).
• Catalogue: Expanded the list of notable performances of Opus clavicembalisticum.
• Discography: Added a citation for the recording of the Pastiche on the Hindu Merchant’s Song from “Sadko” by Rimsky-Korsakov (1922; 4 pp.) by Eiji Nishimura.
• Bibliography: Added a few citations.
• Passim: Updated the instances of the current value of money to the latest available data (2016).

2016

2016-08-04: Release of version 1.14. Since the previous release (version 1.13, 23 June 2015), the book has grown by 3,293 words and 19 footnotes. This version contains several changes or additions concerning years of birth and death, bibliographical citations, and details of new performances, recordings, and editions. Significant additions can be found in the following chapters:

• Chap. 1: Added newly discovered information about the singing activities of Sorabji’s mother.
• Chap. 6: Considerably revised the account of Sorabji’s contacts with Busoni and the latter’s attitude to him as revealed in previously censored passages of the Italian composer’s letters to his wife.
• Chap. 7: Added a paragraph on a letter of 29 June 1920 from Sorabji to Busoni, in which he asks him to examine the piano part of the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [no. 5] (1920; 144 pp.).
• Chap. 8: Revised the section on Emily Edroff-Smith with the help of a paper by Judith Barger on the London Organ School and a Musical Times review of 1926.
• Passim: Updated the instances of the current value of money to the latest available data (2015).
  

2015

2015-06-23: Release of version 1.13. Since the previous release (version 1.12, 12 January 2015), the book has grown by 3,135 words and (again) 18 footnotes. This version contains about 50 changes and additions, of which the following are the most significant:

• Pagination: Pagination in Adobe Acrobat now reflects the presence of preliminary pages with Roman numerals. One can type “xxxiii” in the entry box at the top to go to the preliminary page so numbered, and “333” to go directly to go to that Arabic-numbered page. It is no longer to add an offset corresponding to the number of preliminary pages (44) to reach a text page.
• Chap. 3: Added various bits of information following the publication of John Mitchell’s articles on Sorabji and Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) in the Peter Warlock Society Newsletter and quoted from an article published in the Musical Standard for 27 February 1915 that appears to have been Sorabji’s first article on music.
• Chap. 13: Added a substantial paragraph on the relationships between Sorabji and Robert Simpson (1921-97) following the publication of Sorabji’s side of the correspondence (the only one that survives) and minor updates in several chapters. Also expanded the list of those present at John Tobin’s performance of pars prima of Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30; 253 pp.) in 1936 and provided some missing years of birth and death.
• Catalogue and Discography: Added data on recent performances and editions and two entries to the discography (Habermann 2015, Ullén 2015).
• Bibliography: Added citations for thirteen publications cited in the notes.
• Passim: Updated the instances of the current value of money to the latest available data (2014), using the Historic Standard of Living method.

2015-01-12: Release of version 1.12. Since the previous release (version 1.11, 14 August 2014), the book has grown by 2,762 words and 18 footnotes. The current version contains about 40 changes and additions, of which the following are the most significant:

• Preface: Added information on a previously untracked dissertation by Henry Samuel Wolf discussing Sorabji’s piano sonatas.
• Chap. 6: Expanded the discussion of Sorabji’s appreciation of Lord Berners and, tangentially, referred to Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s attitude to Sorabji.
• Chaps. 9, 12: Documented the relationships between Sorabji and Constant Lambert and their attitudes to each other.
• Chap. 23: Revised and expanded the section on Villa Tasca: Mezzogiorno siciliano—​Evocazione nostalgica e memoria tanta cara e preziosa del giardino meraviglioso, splendido, tropicale (1979-80; 47 pp.) and the “Sicilian Muleteer’s Song”; extensively revised the entire paragraph on Mera Sett (author of the earliest known dedication to Sorabji) with new findings.
• Catalogue: Added data on the first performances of the fifth movement of the Toccata quarta (1964-67; 149 pp.) and of the Frammento cantato (1967; 1 p.); deleted the colons after the section headings in the left part of the page (e.g., “Title” instead of “Title:”).
• Bibliography: Added citations for ten new publications cited in the notes.
• Passim: Capitalized the particle in the name of Aldo Solito De Solis and changed all index entries to sort the name under the particle.

2014

2014-08-14: Release of version 1.11 to mark Sorabji’s 122nd birthday. Since its initial release on 14 August 2013, the book has grown by 7,563 words and 55 footnotes. The current version contains about 30 changes and additions, of which the following are the most significant:

• Chap. 4: Quoted a paragraph from a letter to Harold Rutland on how to pronounce Sorabji’s name and added data on the Rondel chinois (1881), an early song by Debussy that bears similarities to the Vocalise pour soprano fioriturata (1916; 3 pp.).
• Chap. 5: Added biographical information and dates for Eric Harding Thiman and Anthony Bernard, with whom Sorabji had a controversy in 1924.
• Chap. 8: Provided years of birth and death (1876-1957) for Richard Henry Brittain.
• Chap. 9: Added information on a piano piece by Norman Peterkin dedicated to Sorabji in 1920.
• Chap. 15: Added information on works by other composers entitled Symphonic Variations and on Erik Chisholm’s two-piano arrangement of St. Bertrand de Comminges: “He was laughing in the tower” (1941; 16 pp.).
• Chap. 20: Added a reference to a mention of Sorabji in an article by the British author Rebecca West.
• Catalogue: Added publication data for the new edition of the Fourth Symphony for Piano Alone (1962-64; 240 pp.).
• Passim: Updated various passages to take account of the published letters from Christopher Murray Grieve to Sorabji.

2014-06-04: Release of version 1.10, which is a maintenance update to provide the correct music for example 9.10. The need to fix this problem made it possible to update the current values of all amounts in British pounds to reflect the latest data available (2013), and to quote (in chapter 10) from a newly discovered review of the score of Opus clavicembalisticum (1929-30; 253 pp.) in The Modern Scot.

2014-06-02: Release of version 1.09, which is a substantial update, with an increase of 867 words. Major changes and additions include:

• Preface: Added a substantial quotation from the newspaper article “Famous Composer in St. Andrews”.
• Chap. 7: Added a substantial footnote on the engraving firm of Waldheim-Eberle and documentation on a review, probably by César Searchinger, of the London performance of the Sonata seconda for Piano (1920; 49 pp.).
• Chap. 9: Revised the section on the Music for “Faust” (ca. 1930; 0 p.) to take account of the newly determined publication date (1937) for the newspaper article “Famous Composer in St. Andrews”.
• Chap. 11: Added material on Robert Lorenz.
• Chap. 19: Reworked and expanded the section on George Richards and Elisabeth Whitworth Scott.
• Musical Examples: Replaced examples 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.9, 9.10, 16.3, 17.2, 18.3, 19.2, and 22.3 with updated versions.
• Catalogue of Works: Added data for the new editions of the Three Pastiches for Piano (1922; 17 pp.), Opusculum for Orchestra (1923; 36 pp.), and the three organ symphonies; updated the page references in the discussions of these works.
• Bibliography: Added citations for six new publications mentioned in the text.

2014-03-31: Release of version 1.08, which fixes various problems in the Catalogue of Works as well as various minor problems elsewhere. It is thus a maintenance release, reflecting version 1.07 should have been.

2014-03-26: Release of version 1.07, which is the most substantial update since the first publication on 14 August 2013. There are more than eighty changes, some of them quite important, resulting in an increase of 3,729 words and 27 footnotes. The most significant changes and additions include:

• Introduction: Expanded the section on the appearance of Sorabji’s manuscripts; revised the section on his use of notes not available on the standard keyboard; expanded the discussion of the fugue subjects.
• Chap. 3: Added a paragraph on Rosa Newmarch being instrumental in Sorabji’s discovery of Scriabin.
• Chap. 11: Added a paragraph about Sorabji’s use of numbered ideas in the Symphony no. 0 for Piano Solo (1930-31; 333 pp.).
• Chap. 14: Added explanations resulting from the correction of the title of var. 27 of the Symphonic Variations for Piano (1935-37; 484 pp.) from “The Garden of Irān” to “The Garden of Iram”.
• Chap. 19: Revised the analysis of the Third Symphony for Piano Solo (1959-60; 144 pp.) to take account of the discovery of a soggetto cavato referring to the dedicatee, George Richards.
• Chap. 20: Expanded the section on Sorabji’s attitude to Mahler; added several lines on his appreciation of Medtner and his contribution to the collective book edited by Richard Holt; substantially revised the analysis of the Toccata quarta (1964-67; 149 pp.).
• Catalogue of Works: Added data on a recent first performance (Etude no. 69 by Florian Steininger) and three new editions (two by Jonathan Powell, one by Alberto Vignani); added the recently discovered date for the first performance of Le mauvais jardinier (1918 or 1919; compl. Chappell Kingsland, 2023; 5 pp.), in the form in which it was then known, given as part of Kent R. Conrad’s doctoral recital (2011).
• Bibliography: Added several citations.
• Passim:
  • Added or revised years of birth and death for George Bethell Datch, Terence White Gervais, Theodore Jenkins, Harold Vincent Marrot, and Harry Winstanley.
  • Updated the instances of the current value of money to the latest available data (2012).

2013

2013-12-18: Release of version 1.06, which updates the Catalogue of Works with data on the first performances of no. 38 of the Études transcendantes (100) (1940-44; 456 pp.) and the Sixth Symphony for Piano (Symphonia claviensis) (1975-76; 270 pp.) as well as about the new edition of the Symphony [no. 1] for Organ (1924; 81 pp.). New data on the London Organ School (chapter 2) and W. E. Ottaway (chapter 17) have been added, and the section on Emily Edroff-Smith (chapter 8) has been extensively revised using documentation compiled by the Sophie Drinker Institut.

2013-10-15: Release of version 1.05, incorporating a few minor changes.

2013-10-04: Release of version 1.01 of the sound files.

2013-10-03: Release of version 1.04, incorporating corrections offered by Kenneth Derus and Douglas Taylor. The latter brought to my attention a previously unknown entry on “Hindoo Music” by Sorabji in Ralph Dunstan’s Cyclopædic Dictionary of Music (see chapter 11). The file now loads with the bookmark panel displayed on the left side, with top-level bookmarks expanded. Two new pages have been added to the “Opus sorabjianum” menu entry on the Sorabji Resource Site:

• Sound Files for the Musical Examples (version 1.00)
• Illustrations

2013-09-10: Release of version 1.03, incorporating corrections kindly suggested by Marc-André Hamelin, Poom Pipatjarasgit, and Douglas Taylor.

2013-08-29: Release of version 1.02, incorporating corrections kindly suggested by Kenneth Derus, Donald Manildi, and André Papillon.

2013-08-14: Release of version 1.01 to remove a stray marker at the beginning of line 2 of p. 185.

2013-08-14: Publication of version 1.00 of Opus sorabjianum: The Life and Works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji on the occasion of Sorabji’s 121st birthday and announcement on the Sorabji Forum.

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