Kaikhosru Sorabji's Letters to Peter Warlock (Inglis/Smith: Routledge)

  January: 2 nd 1922.         Hotel Krantz. Neuer Markt. 5. Vienna.   My Phee:   I’m here as you see. I’ve met and played to D r Wellecz who appeared greatly impressed and have also seen old Hertzka and his Kalmuck nephew – alias Herr Doctor Kalmuss – who is seeing to all the arrangements of my little 5 oclock concert in the small hall of the Musik Vereins Gebäude on January 13 th .                                                                         I shall play the 2 Sonatas . . . it will last about an hour and a half in all and is by invitation only: I thus hope to rope in some of the most interesting people. D r Wellecz has promised to act as turner over of pages. Schönberg has not answered nor ...

This blog relates to the research project and book Kaikhosru Sorabji's Letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) ed Brian Inglis and Barry Smith (Routledge 2020). During 2022 - from January to July, specifically - excerpts from the edition will be posted here. These posts reflect the texts of letters sent from British-Asian composer, pianist and writer Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to his friend and colleague, the musician Philip Heseltine - better known by his pseudonym Peter Warlock (1894-1930) to the date, exactly 100 years on. Thereby giving a sense of the rhythm of the correspondence (initiated in 1913) as it drew to its close, and the gap between then and now.  The complete transcribed correspondence (based on a manuscript in the British Library) is contained in the said book, with footnote annotations, contextual documents and an extensive introductory and interpretative essay. Available from Routledge in hardback, paperback and eBook formats. https://www...