nocturne
In music, a reflective character piece, often for piano, introduced by John Field (1782–1837) and adopted by Frédéric Chopin.
Nocturne
| Song cycle for tenor, seven obbligato (‘obliged’) instruments, and strings by Britten (texts by Shelley, Tennyson, Coleridge, Middleton, Wordsworth, Owen, Keats, and Shakespeare). It was first performed in Leeds on 16 October 1958, with the English tenor Peter Pears. |
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