‘Opus Clavicembalisticum’: The Longest Piece of Piano Music Ever Performed

(via mental_floss)  On December 1, 1930, a pianist named Kaikhosru Sorabji took to the stage at Glasgow’s Stevenson Hall to perform one of his own compositions. Entitled Opus Clavicembalisticum, Sorabji had only finished writing the work five months earlier… Its 252 pages are divided among three sections, comprising a total of 12 different movements and  it takes almost 5 hours to properly play it.