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Chopin composed his best-known Nocturne in E ♭ major, Op. 9, No. 2 when he was around twenty years old. This well-known nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. It is 34 measures long and written in 12 8 meter, having a similar structure to a waltz. The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each ...
Chopin's nocturnes carry many similarities with those of Field while at the same time retaining a distinct, unique sound of their own. One aspect of the nocturne that Chopin continued from Field is the use of a song-like melody in the right hand. This is one of the most if not the most important features to the nocturne as a whole.
The song "For the Damaged Coda" by Blonde Redhead is based on the F minor nocturne, and appears in the animated series Rick and Morty. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Hope trailer has Nocturnes, Op. 55 playing in the background. Cyberpunk 2077's last mission is titled Nocturne Op55N1 and is played by Hanako Arasaka at the beginning.
In 1857, the known 17 Polish songs that had been written at various stages throughout Chopin's life were collected and published as Op. 74, the order of the songs within that opus having little regard for their actual order of composition. [2] Other songs have since come to light, but they are not part of Op. 74.
Also, Chopin wrote numerous song settings of Polish texts, and chamber pieces including a piano trio and a cello sonata. This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are identified by numbers from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown ( B ), Krystyna Kobylańska ( KK ), Józef Michał Chomiński ( A , C , D , E ...
Samuel Barber: the last of Four Songs, for voice and piano, Op. 13 (1938–40) is titled "Nocturne" (to a text by Frederic Prokosch), and this song also exists in a version with orchestra; Nocturne (Homage to John Field), for piano, Op. 33 (1959) William Basinski: Nocturnes; Arnold Bax: Nocturnes, for soprano and orchestra (1911)
Nocturne in C minor, Op. posth. (Chopin) Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. (Chopin) This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 10:54 (UTC). Text is ...
The Nocturne in C minor is one of the more well known nocturnes, and has been categorized as one of Chopin's greatest emotional achievements. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Theodor Kullak said of the piece, "the design and poetic contents of this nocturne make it the most important one that Chopin created; the chief subject is a masterly expression of a great ...