Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,was a Polish composer and
virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote
primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has
maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading
musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on
a professional technique that was without equal in his
generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy
of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815
became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he
completed his musical education...(+)
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,was a Polish composer and
virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote
primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has
maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading
musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on
a professional technique that was without equal in his
generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy
of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815
became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he
completed his musical education and composed many of
his works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of
20, less than a month before the outbreak of the
November 1830 Uprising.
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. 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 recurrence. The penultimate bar utilizes
considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the
instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). The nocturne
opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano
(quietly), containing graceful upward leaps which
becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This
melody is heard again three times during the piece.
With each repetition, it is varied by ever more
elaborate decorative tones and trills. The nocturne
also includes a subordinate melody, which is played
with rubato. A sonorous foundation for the melodic line
is provided by the widely spaced notes in the
accompaniment, connected by the damper pedal. The
waltz-like accompaniment gently emphasizes the 12/8
meter, 12 beats to the measure subdivided into four
groups of 3 beats each.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnes,_Op._9_(Chopin
).
Although composed for solo piano, I created this
Interpretation of the Nocturne in Eb Major (Op. 9 No.
2) for String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello).
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