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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 ...
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, 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).
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 ...
Description and history Birds-eye view of Denver and the Rockies as viewed from the tower of the Daniels and Fisher Stores Co., 1913. Built as part of the Daniels & Fisher department store in 1910, it was the tallest building between the Mississippi River and the state of California at the time of construction, at a height of 325 feet (99 m).
Nocturnes (Chopin) 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 and expanded on it, building on the form ...
The opening bars from Op. 55, No. 1 in F minor above, and the second theme below. The Nocturnes, Op. 55 are a set of two nocturnes for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin. They are his fifteenth and sixteenth installations in the genre, and were composed between 1842 and 1844, and published in August 1844. Chopin dedicated them to his pupil ...
Pages in category "Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin". The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Nocturne in C minor, Op. posth. (Chopin) Nocturnes (Chopin) Nocturnes, Op. 9 (Chopin) Nocturnes, Op. 15 (Chopin)
The Nocturnes, Op. 37 are a set of two nocturnes for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin in 1839 during the time of his stay with author George Sand in Majorca [1] [2] and published in 1840. [3] Unusually, neither piece carries a dedication. This set of nocturnes was originally considered to be one of the better sets, yet its popularity ...
English. Nocturne is a 2020 American supernatural horror drama film written and directed by Zu Quirke. The film stars Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon and Ivan Shaw. Jason Blum serves as a producer under his Blumhouse Television banner. It was released on October 13, 2020, by Amazon Studios, as the fourth installment in the ...