Chopin: Inner Nocturne | Improvised Piano Arrangement by Werner Elmker
0Chopin: Inner Nocturne | Improvised Piano Arrangement by Werner Elmker
Chopin: Nocturne No. 21, Op. posth in C minor
This nocturne was named by the performer.
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The music of the nocturnes has exerted a powerful and immediate fascination over listeners. This was expressed by the Paris critic Hippolyte Barbedette, one of Chopin’s first biographers, in a manner that might even arouse surprise: ‘Chopin’s nocturnes’, he wrote in his study of the composer in 1861, ‘are perhaps his greatest claim to fame; they are his most perfect works’. That is how they were seen in Paris during the mid nineteenth century. Barbedette explained the reason for their success as follows: ‘That loftiness of ideas, purity of form and almost invariably that stamp of dreamy melancholy’.
Frédéric Chopin wrote 21 nocturnes for solo piano between 1827 and 1846. They are generally considered among the finest short solo works for the instrument and hold an important place in contemporary concert repertoire. Although Chopin did not invent the nocturne, he popularized and expanded on it, building on the form developed by Irish composer John Field.
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