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Denver Oldham (September 15, 1936 – May 6, 2012) [1] was an American concert pianist and recording artist. A Steinway Artist, [2] he had to his credit twelve European concert tours, two South American concert tours, as well as numerous domestic performances. He recorded ten albums, paying special attention to the works of neglected American ...
Nocturnes (Chopin) Cover page of Chopin's Nocturnes Op. 48. 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. [1] Although Chopin did not invent the nocturne, he popularized ...
History. The term nocturne (from French nocturne "of the night") [1] was first applied to musical pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside. Sometimes it carried the Italian equivalent, notturno, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Notturno in D ...
Nocturne (painting) In art, a 'nocturne' its broader sense distinguishes paintings of a night scene, [3] or night-piece, such as Rembrandt 's The Night Watch, or the German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich 's Two Men Contemplating the Moon of 1819. In America, James Abbott McNeill Whistler titled works thus to distinguish those paintings with a ...
The Nocturne No. 20 in C ♯ minor, Op. posth., Lento con gran espressione, P 1, No. 16, KKIVa/16, WN 37, is a solo piano piece composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1830 and published in 1875. Chopin dedicated this work to his older sister Ludwika Chopin , with the statement: "To my sister Ludwika as an exercise before beginning the study of my ...
The opening bars and main theme of No. 1. The Nocturnes, Op. 9 are a set of three nocturnes for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin between 1831 and 1832, published in 1832, and dedicated to Madame Marie Pleyel. These were Chopin's first published set of nocturnes. The second nocturne of the work is often regarded as Chopin's most famous piece.
Nocturne Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1954 by Roy Harte, a drummer, and Harry Babasin, a bassist. Based in Hollywood, California, Nocturne concentrated on West Coast jazz. On March 28, 1955, Nocturne merged with Liberty and issued the Nocturne catalog under the Liberty label, as the "Jazz in Hollywood" series ...
Orchestra. women's chorus. Nocturnes, L 98 (also known as Trois Nocturnes or Three Nocturnes) is an impressionist orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and 1899. It is based on poems from Poèmes anciens et romanesques ( Henri de Régnier, 1890).