Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji.

notated in black in on two five-stave systems per page, with titles added in red ink, a few deletions and alterations, one short passage indicated for the bass flute, dated by Sorabji at the end, "XXIV. XI. MCMLXXIX". 33 pages, including autograph title, oblong folio, 15-stave paper, uncut and unbound, the title-page inscribed by Norman P. Gentieu (who commissioned the piece for the Delius Society),  

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Kaikhosru K. Sorabji (1892-1988) was an eccentric and reclusive English composer of Persian extraction.  His music blends Baroque models with seamless post-Romantic textures of uncompromising and transcendental difficulty.  Il Tessuto d'Arabeschi is a chamber piece written for the Delius Society of Philadelphia, where it was performed on 2 May 1982, and is unusual among Sorabji's compositions being relatively brief and in containing no keyboard part.   Nevertheless this tapestry of sound is replete with characteristically complex metres and cross-rhythms.  Sorabji commented in a letter to Norman Gentieu:  "It is designed as all my later works are, as a seamless coat, what I call a tessuto in sound from which the threads cannot be disassociated or--if you like--disentangled without destroying the Tessuto".  In this elegantly written manuscript, the visual effect of the textures is dramatic and striking.